Police: 16 kilograms of cocaine seized at UN
Friday, January 27, 2012
UNITED NATIONS -- A New York Police Department spokesman said a shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine has been seized at the U.N.'s mail intake center.
Paul Browne, NYPD's chief spokesman, said Thursday the drug was in a white bag that raised suspicions because it was stamped with what looked like a poorly concocted version of the U.N. logo.
He said there was no name or address on the shipment sent from Mexico City through Cincinnati.
Browne said U.N. security officials called the NYPD and Drug Enforcement Administration, which confirmed the substance inside the shipment intercepted Jan. 16 was cocaine.
U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said neither the U.N. nor anyone located at U.N. headquarters was its intended recipient of the shipment. (AP)
