Humberto Baez, 52, based in Lancaster, was sentenced on Thursday for conspiring to import and distribute cocaine and for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, according to a DEA press release."Concealing drug shipments with produce is one way drug traffickers try to elude law enforcement. This cat and mouse game evolves over time resulting in law enforcement recovering drugs in various places; such as inside coconuts, wheelchairs, animals, people, tombstones, etc.
Baez's smuggling took place between August 2016 and March 2018, according to the DEA. Baez and others hid the drugs inside shipping containers bound for the United States from the Dominican Republic. At first, Baez and his co-conspirators planned two"dry run" shipments, which only shipped produce, in order to look like a legitimate produce seller.
When a third shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine, which had been"concealed in the flaps of cardboard boxes containing chili peppers," arrived in Miami, Florida, in late February 2018, Baez told his co-conspirators that"ripe tomatoes" would be transported by truck to Baez's warehouse in Pennsylvania, the DEA said in its statement.
Lesson learned: Sacklers make out with billions by legally killing people with opioids and corrupting the healthcare system without ever admitting any wrongdoing, but this is where we draw the line... ...good job DEA. You're always looking out for the public interests.
To be fair, the numbing effect is superior to dairy for spicy 🌶
Odd how police stop 0.00000001% of drug dealers to keep prices high but.... Don't police fund drug cartels by telling your kids they need no ID for crack, cocaine and heroin?
Just 13 years.
Sell the drugs back to the cartel. Use the money to feed and house the homeless.
CPS should report and help arrest some YouTube parents.
Spicy.
Hunter Biden isn't going to be happy when he hears about this.