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Gotta be the shoes: Jersey man charged with trying to sneak more than four pounds of coke through Logan
By adamg on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 3:50pm
Shoe cocaine. Photo from Suffolk County DA's office.
A man getting off a plane at Logan Airport from the Dominican Republic was arrested yesterday after State Police found 2.2 kilograms of cocaine inside shoes in his checked luggage, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
East Boston District Court Judge Roberto Ronquillo, Jr., set bail for Carlos Lanns at $300,000 and ordered him to surrender his passport and wear a GPS monitor if he gets out, the DA's office says.
Lanns, 24, of Hamilton, NJ, got only as far as Customs after getting off a JetBlue flight around 6:10 p.m., according to the DA's office:
The arrest followed communications between State Police and US Customs and Border Protection. Authorities are not revealing the detection techniques used in this case so as not to compromise ongoing interdiction efforts.
The cocaine was recovered in eight plastic-wrapped bundles secreted within four pairs of shoes inside a bag Lanns had checked as luggage. It was weighed and field testing gave a positive result, indicating it was cocaine.
Prosecutors say the coke had a street value of about $200,000.
Innocent, etc.
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No one ever said that criminals were smart.
Because if they were, they would realize/remember/expect that people arriving on flights from the Caribbean and particularly those from the Dominican, are watched very, very closely upon arrival Logan. In fact, most of the time, the CBP officers on duty know while the plane is still in the air who is going to get extra scrutiny when it lands. The MSP just take it from there.
This reminds me of the imbecile kids who arrive on a flight back from Amsterdam during spring break time and can't figure out how it is that the authorities knew that they were carrying pot.
Dopes.
Ha!
He must have been wearing high-tops.
Cuban heels.
Cuban heels.
Another case for Locked Up
Another case for Locked Up Abroad.
The giant clown shoes...
May have been the give away....