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Frozen fish filled with cocaine worth £400,000 seized in drug bust as cops reel in two ‘smugglers’

May 10, 2016 — Holy mackerel!

The feds busted two alleged drug smugglers in Brooklyn after hooking some fish stuffed with cocaine.

Triston Daniels and Troy Gonsalves were reeled in after 20 kilos of cocaine were discovered stashed inside a shipment of frozen fish.

They were arraigned Saturday in Brooklyn Federal Court and released on $150,000 bail.

The fish tale began May 4 when U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized an air cargo shipment of “large, frozen fish” from Suriname at Miami International Airport, according to U.S. Homeland Security special agent Ryan Varrone.

Read the full story at the New York Daily News

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