UNITED NATIONS — A shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine was seized last week at the U.N.’s mail intake center, a New York Police Department spokesman said Thursday.
Paul Browne, NYPD’s chief spokesman, said the drug was in a white bag evidently masquerading as a diplomatic pouch that raised suspicions when it was being scanned because it was stamped with what looked like a poorly concocted version of the U.N. logo. Browne said there was no name or address on the shipment sent from Mexico City through Cincinnati.
U.N. security officials called the NYPD and Drug Enforcement Administration, which confirmed the substance inside the shipment intercepted Jan. 16 was cocaine, the police spokesman said. U.N. undersecretary-general for safety and security Gregory B. Starr told reporters Thursday evening that “there is nothing to indicate that this had anything to do with anybody at the United Nations.” Starr said the drug was actually stashed in two bags that were stamped with the sky-blue U.N. logo of a world map in an apparent effort to masquerade as diplomatic pouches, which are not supposed to be inspected. Inside the bag, the drug was hidden in hollowed-out notebooks, he added.
The U.N. official showed journalists a photograph of the bags that were seized, and compared them with a real diplomatic pouch used by the U.N., which is somewhat larger and made of a different material.
I have been wondering what happened to that shipment I was expecting.
Practice makes perfect. They’ll get it right the second or third time. So hang in there you addicts of the UN. And send yer drug peddling buddies a better description of what a diplomatic pouch should look like. Not “just anything with a blue ink world logo stamped on it will do.” Cause obviously it didn’t.
Apparently they’re getting lazy at the UN, that they want the drugs delivered via the mail now. I’m sure, in the past, it was stashed in the voids of their diplomatic limos. Which probably also don’t get searched. But that means actually having to go down to the garage and pry the stuff out of the rocker panels. Just too much work, for office types. And too many middle men to employ, via the garage, when it could be shipped directly to the designated office. Perhaps if they hide the drugs inside the monthly sex toys deliveries, they’ll get thru without any inspection.
Good for them, celebrating together as one people.
Oh, now… Someone spilled the beans… I mean powder.
“United Nations Takers Large Cocaine Delivery” /// Is there a typo with Takers there? In any case, I don’t get it.
Are diplomatic pouches sent via any kind of mail? I thought they were all personally carried by actual diplomats? Sounds like someone watching tv in Mexico and thinking some soap opera plot line was real? Like the number of shows you can see where the beat up wife gets a ruling of innocent of murdering her husband so now when he shows up alive she can kill him and be protected by the double jeopardy rule. Saw TWO shows on that last month. About as realistic as doctors risking a personal lawsuit to save a patient who wants to die. Or Pedro able to back up an empty comment.
Yeah, some things just don’t pass the common sense test.
I thought trucks and submarines from Mexico were bringing in cocaine by the tons? Why the small ounce mail effort? Mexico must have more cocaine than they know what to do with? Surprised they don’t give it away for free in Mexico==what else is a society of hard working people who want to control their own lives good for?
Yea, verily.
They sure seem to be playing up the “fake bag” angle here. I smell a distraction, I would imagine the last thing the UN would want is to start having all diplomatic bags being x-rayed. Might just mess-up there “special deliveries”.
Evidently, that Mexican Soap Opera was more right than wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag
Is there EVER a good idea that in practice does not get extended to idiocy?
Supposedly the shipper, which I understand to be DHL, was returning an undeliverable shipment to the original shipper, which they thought to be the UN because of the bogus logo on the suitcase.
The story does not hold water. There should be a shipping manifest in the possession of DHL and/or other intermediate shippers that tracks the shipment back to its origin.
Somebody knows where this shipment originated.
Some dude in the baggage handling area grabbed the wrong bag. He was probably supposed to pull a UN logo bag at Cinci. Bet his package had all the UN real mail in it.
While this does appear to have been rather amateurish for the UN who are, one can only assume, much more professional about authorized shipments one can only wonder who was supposed to get the shipment. You don’t send off that much money without someone being assigned to collect it.
This is totally lies and false innuendos. Everyone knows diplomatic pouches are used for illegal sex toys.