Feds Bust Ring that Hid Cocaine in Legos

Posted Sep 24, 08 11:49 AM CDT in Crime & Courts

(Newser) – Federal agents announced the arrest yesterday of a pack of Bronx drug dealers accused of smuggling cocaine into New York with the help of the world’s smallest traffickers: Lego men. Agents say the cocaine was sent from Puerto Rico through normal US mail, ingeniously hidden within buckets of the plastic blocks. Or maybe not-so-ingeniously, since investigators tracked the shipments for 5 months, and eventually nabbed eight suspects.

Source: New York Daily News

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This undated photo released by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, shows an example of the cocaine and the toys that concealed it. (AP Photo/Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, HO)

A giant 'Lego' man waves at the Legoland Discovery Center in Duisburg on April 17, 2008. (AFP/Getty)

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