Chocolate truffles stuffed with $500,000 of cocaine seized at New York airport "stash of Ferrero Rocher chocolate truffles was seized at a New York airport - because they were stuffed with $500,000 worth of cocaine.
Officials at JFK Airport arrested U.S. citizen Robert Lopera when he arrived on a flight from Colombia with the drugs concealed inside chocolates and nuts.
Lopera was arrested after a total of 15lbs of cocaine was seized by customs on 11 May. Haul: A stash of chocolate truffles was seized at a New York airport because they were stuffed with $500,000 worth of cocaineThe U.S. citizen was first stopped when the bag of candies he was carrying seemed heavy, according to officials.Balls of cocaine were discovered covered with chocolate and nut-sized cubes of the drug were found inside pistachio shells, police said.'CBP officers remain vigilant when conducting enforcement exams,' Robert E Perez of Customs and Border Protection's New York office told NBC.Lopera is expected to be be arraigned in Brooklyn federal court on drug trafficking charges.Ferrero Rocher chocolates became popular in the UK during the 1990s thanks to a series of TV adverts set at a party in a European ambassador's official residence.The lines 'Eccellente' and 'Monsieur, with these Rocher, you're really spoiling us' quickly passed into popular culture."
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