New Zealand’s largest cocaine haul ever was uncovered in an unusual place: inside an 881-pound diamante-encrusted horse.
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A horse sculpture imported to New Zealand contained 35 bricks of high-grade cocaine. New Zealand Police
Authorities in New Zealand said Saturday that contained within the sculpture’s glittery head, which arrived from Mexico in May, were 35 bricks of high-grade cocaine worth nearly $11 million U.S..
Two unidentified men — a 56-year-old U.S. national and a 44-year-old Mexican national —were arrested Friday night at Auckland International
Airport, police said in a statement.
Additional search warrants were being executed in Christchurch, the statement said, and Sunday here, police released surveillance video of a
man “with a Spanish-sounding accent” who may be connected to the operation.
Detective Sgt. Colin Parmenter said the amount of cocaine seized in a typical year in New Zealand is 250 grams, or about half a pound — a statistic crushed by the sculpture.
“What this find tells us, though, is that there is obviously a demand for it,” Parmenter said, according to the statement. “While it’s possible that this statue may have been sent on to another country … there’s every possibility that the cocaine was destined for the New Zealand market www.kingofthieveshackcheats.com.”