Topic: Review
Cocaine Found in Tropical Fish Cargo
Mon Jan 26, 9:42 AM ET

MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. customs officials seized $300,000 worth of liquid cocaine disguised as water in a shipment of live tropical fish from Colombia.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection service said on Friday that 41.7 pounds of cocaine was packaged in plastic bags used to ship the fresh water decorative fish to Miami.

"This appears to be a new trend in smuggling, using an old method which officers have not seen in many years," said the agency, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The fish were packed in bags with three linings. The inner lining, containing the fish, was filled with water but the middle lining held a yellowish liquid that triggered the interest of a drug dog called "Rocky."

In all, six bags in a shipment of the fish sent by cargo plane from Bogota tested positive for cocaine.

There is something...fishy...about this shipment! Was it (drumroll please) BLOWfish?