It was a fruitful morning for a pair of prison guards who uncovered some monkey business when they spotted $17.8 million of cocaine hidden inside a shipment of bananas donated to the Texas prison system.

Two sergeants at the Scott Unit set out on Friday morning to pick up two pallets of already-ripe fruit - 45 banana-filled boxes - from the Ports of America in Freeport.

When they arrived to grab up their load, they found one of the boxes felt different from the rest.

One of the sergeants snipped away the straps and rummaged around until he uncovered a bundle hidden under the bananas. Inside, was a white powdery substance.

U.S. Customs showed up to help, and positively identified the substance as cocaine.

After scouring all the boxes, agents found a total of 540 packages of coke, with an estimated street value of nearly $18 million.

The Drug Enforcement Administration, and Customs and Border Protection are both investigating, according to a prison press release. But, it appears, the perpetrator has already split.

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I'll bet the perpetrator peeled out..........................

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
...it appears, the perpetrator has already split.

I see what you did there.

You knew this thread would be ripe for puns......

Hope they can peel back this mystery.

No way IN HELL you're putting my picture in the newspaper/web after that.

It appears to me that the sender or original recipient made an error. I do not see how prisoners could pay for that much coke.

Somebody was monkeying around with that banana shipment. And that's NOT a racial slur.

The warden has some 'splainin to do.

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Originally posted by cas:
No way IN HELL you're putting my picture in the newspaper/web after that.

I was just thinking the same thing.

I knew there was a reason that I was feeling funny after eating bananas sometimes.

I'll bet some third world guerillas are going ape shit over the loss. I'd be checking all the outbound lettuce and cabbage boxes for the payment.

Sounds like they're biased against primates who need a little pick me up

Bump!

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:

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Originally posted by cas:
No way IN HELL you're putting my picture in the newspaper/web after that.

I was just thinking the same thing.

You're not the one getting wacked. The Cartel knows you just got lucky.

The one that's going to have an untimely death is the idiot that messed up the shipment.

Yeah somebody’s gonna get killed over this.

I'd be taking a real close look at whoever gets shanked next in the joint.

I'll go out on a limb and say that I suspect that the involvement of the prison is merely coincidental.

This was some sort of smuggling operation that mixed up what was supposed to be going where. Those who had it to donate had no idea what it really was either. What would anybody in a prison be able to do with a pallet full of drugs?

There was a case a few years back where a gun safe out of Mexico showed up to a guy's house here in the US filled with weed. Similar situation. Wrong label applied to the wrong box only to be discovered by innocent parties.

Somewhere out there is a drug smuggler up to his eyeballs in bananas only now finding out where his drugs ended up.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
I'll go out on a limb and say that I suspect that the involvement of the prison is merely coincidental.

This was some sort of smuggling operation that mixed up what was supposed to be going where. Those who had it to donate had no idea what it really was either. What would anybody in a prison be able to do with a pallet full of drugs?

There was a case a few years back where a gun safe out of Mexico showed up to a guy's house here in the US filled with weed. Similar situation. Wrong label applied to the wrong box only to be discovered by innocent parties.

I’m with you, who donates fruit to prisons? Nobody with that much money was dumb enough to “donate” that and think it would get through. I know there are plenty of guards involved in illegal activities within the prison but I wouldn’t think enough to get that in unnoticed.

Wait, what's hiding in Big Boys shirt?

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