Cocaine found in German coffee delivery

Employees at a German coffee roasting company were in for a surprise when they uncovered a little something extra in a delivery of unroasted green coffee.

In a recent shipment from South America, workers found that their consignment contained an extra item – a sports bag which was filled with cocaine.

Somehow, the drugs managed to bypass customs and numerous other checks and arrived at the Berlin factory. Shipped from Brazil, the packages passed through the port of Bremerhaven and then headed, via road, to the German capital.

The local police seized the drugs after they were altered by staff.

“This was no coffee whitener,” said a spokesman for the authorities.

Who it was act intended for and why it was hidden away in the midst of unroasted coffee remains a mystery German police say, removing the slightly fanciful notion that some Berlin-based coffee roaster is a real-life Walter White.

However it is believed that somebody forgot to – or couldn’t – remove the cocaine from the coffee before it reached the roaster as police found supplies to reseal the package inside the sports bag.

They are undertaking an investigation to try and determine who was responsible and how the drugs ended up at the coffee business.

Reports state that that the haul weighed in at 73lbs and had a street value of $1.8 million.

This isn’t the first major drugs haul to be found in German-headed cargo this year.

Back in January 300lbs of cocaine was inadvertently unearthed in a pile of banana boxes that were destined to a number of branches of the discount supermarket chain Aldi.