"No soup for you," says CBP
The shipment may have been manifested as chicken vegetable soup, but Philadelphia US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers soon realised that the brothy bouillon before them was canned criminal consommé.
While inspecting international express delivery parcels, CBP officers encountered a shipment that consisted of twelve litre-sized cans labelled as “Dutch canned vegetable chicken soup.”
The cans, which were shipped from the Netherlands, appeared to be leaking a purple liquid. Officers used an elemental isotope analysis tool and identified the cans’ contents as MDMA hydrochloride.
MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphatemine) is a synthetic commonly known as ecstasy. The liquid ecstasy was shipped from the Netherlands and destined to an address in Miami. (cj)