Fourteen Aldi supermarkets in Berlin received an unexpected surprise with their produce deliveries this past Monday. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, 386kg (over 850lbs) of Colombian cocaine was found stuffed into crates of bananas shipped to the popular grocery stores. The shipment was estimated to be worth about 15 million euros ($21 million).
Berlin police, obviously using finely-tuned detective skills, believed the nose candy was sent to the stores by accident:
“Apparently there was a logistical mistake somewhere along the line,” police spokesman Stefan Redlich told AFP, adding that investigators were now trying to determine their intended destination.
The cocaine shipment was the largest of its kind in Berlin’s history. Apparently, though, narcotics being shipped with fruit is nothing new for German supermarkets:
In a similar case in January 2014, Berlin supermarket workers discovered 140kg of the drug worth around six million euros also hidden in crates of bananas.
While shipping cocaine in banana crates sounds pretty half-assed, at least it’s more inventive than some recent smuggling efforts.