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Customs and Border Protection officers have seized more than four pounds of cocaine hidden inside chocolate bars and drink boxes

Customs and Border Protection officers have seized more than four pounds of cocaine hidden inside chocolate bars and drink boxes inside luggage at Washington Dulles International Airport. (Customs and Border Protection)

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Cocaine hidden in chocolate seized at Dulles

Has a street value of about $130,000

Updated: Wednesday, 25 Apr 2012, 6:52 AM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 25 Apr 2012, 6:52 AM CDT

STERLING, Va. (AP) — Customs and Border Protection officers have seized more than four pounds of cocaine hidden inside chocolate bars and drink boxes inside luggage at Washington Dulles International Airport.

Officials say the contraband was found in a Guatemalan woman's luggage late Sunday. Officers say she is a legitimate courier and was not charged; however, she faces a five-year ban from returning to the United States.

CBP says the woman arrived from El Salvador. Inside her baggage, officials found six chocolate bars with cocaine in the center, and six small drink boxes that held plastic bags filled with cocaine.

The cocaine weighed more than four pounds and has a street value of about $130,000.

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