Imagine the embarrassment of showing up for a flight only to discover the faux pas of wearing the same type of cocaine pants as another passenger.
The Washington Post reports two passengers were caught in the act trying to smuggle cocaine into the country via a flight that originated from the Dominican Republic.
According to the report, both were on the same Delta Air Lines flight but were traveling separately.
There is no mention whether both were involved in any way or just happened to be characters in one crazy smuggling coincidence.
Ariel Garcia, a U.S. citizen, reportedly had 11 pounds of cocaine strapped to his person-the street value of which is reportedly $180,000. The second mastermind in this story is Dominican Republic native Elvin Montilla-Sosa, who was not to be outdone.
He had a whopping 12 pounds of powder taped to his body, which amounts to $200,000 of contraband.
Both admitted they were being paid by an unnamed entity to bring the drugs into the country. Garcia states his payment was to be $8,000.
Leon Hayward, acting director of CBP's New York Field Operations, offered the following via The Washington Post: "This latest seizure demonstrates our CBP officers being ever vigilant in protecting the United States from the distribution of these illicit drugs."
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This isn't the first we have seen of rare cocaine pants spotted out in the wild of JFK. Just this March, Mayo-Banex Ruiz Gomez came in from, you guessed it, the Dominican Republic sporting some rather beefy thighs.
They weren't a result or working out but rather $83,000 worth of cocaine.
Then there was the case of a Jamaican man who, earlier this month, claimed to be a pilot coming into JFK Airport. Officials found that not only was that claim false but he was toting $85,000 worth of cocaine.
So we leave you with this Lesson of the Day: Cocaine pants are never in season, even at JFK.
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