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Authorities in Houston, Texas say that bananas that were donated to a prison turned out to have almost $18 million dollars street value worth of cocaine hidden inside of the boxes.
The Department of Criminal Justice said that the drugs were found in two pallets of bananas that were donated under the pretence that they were already ripe and no longer good enough to be sold. This happen last Friday.
The department said the sergeants who picked up the boxes found a bundle of a white powdery substance under the bananas. Once this was found the U.S. customs officials were called to the scene. The authorities say that 540 packages of cocaine were found in 45 boxes of bananas.
The department says that federal officials and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection are still investigating the matter but currently they have no suspects.