Aug 22, 2010
U.S. Customs Seize Ganja-Filled Tombstone Destined For U.K.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the DHL express consignment operation in Cincinnati, seized more than 52 pounds (22 kilograms) of marijuana last week. The drug was hidden inside a tombstone which was being shipped from Kingston, Jamaica to London, England.
According to reports, officers conducting enforcement operations became suspicious of the item, and a narcotics detection dog alerted aggressively to the parcel. An x-ray examination of the item revealed anomalies, and several packages of marijuana were subsequently found concealed within a metal box which was wrapped in metal mesh and hidden inside the concrete tombstone. The street value of the marijuana is approximately US$52,000.
The tombstone (picture below), bears the name of 35-year-old Delroy Senior. Part of its inscription reads, “your place no one can fill.”
