“It was hiding in the celery," said DEA Special Agent in Charge Robert Murphy. "Obviously, we threw away the celery. That didn’t make it to the store.”
The agency had learned about a semitrailer coming across the Mexican border, and agents tracked the drugs to the farmers market, said DEA Special Agent in Charge Robert Murphy. The drugs were found inside the truck, he said.
“This was contained in a cover load of celery,”
So unfortunately not inside the celery itself, which would of course be significantly more fun :(
Now I’m wondering if you could get celery to soak up a drug solution since it’s so watery, then extract the drugs again later
Or serve as a vehicle for bioaccumulation.
Mirepoix never was so amazing.
I feel like that was the plot of an old Bond movie.
Pretty crazy that imported food is finding it’s way into a farmer’s market in the first place. My local farmers market is pretty stringent on what is allowed and eant proof that your produce or wares were produced within 100 miles of the city.
It was likely not the final selling point, just a convent place with lots of trucks and people to blend into. May have had one guy with a stall, but it was more likely a place to split it into other shipments.
Meth sprinkled celery would be quite a reinventing of the traditional ‘ants on a log’ recipe, anyway
I’d like to return the headline please
Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. I lost 87 pounds in 2 months on the meth and celery diet. The twitching and sores are totally worth it.
Thanks, just changed it.
No worries!
“How to get your kids to crave their vegetables.”
They didn’t throw out the meth though right?
The 1500 lb of meth? No they didn’t throw that away.
That seizure of 980lb of meth is surely a county record, and was promptly moved to a secure location.
Yeah we loaded all 530lbs of meth into evidence already Danny.
First those sweets in NZ then this. Lots of screwups in the meth business!
At least this meth isn’t where a child would find it!
I’m surprised it’s where a Georgian would find it.
Unless the kid wanted to make a celery boat as a snack.
ANTS! On a log!
But these will crawl all over you.
My mom just used peanut butter to stuff celery. This sounds like a horrible mother…
At that point, isn’t it more that celery was found in a shipment of meth?
Not the onion indeed
Why is meth suddenly popping up in food everywhere?
Meth has always beem a popular party drug, and has always entered the country in wild vectors like this. I think what has changed is the DEA is no longer cracking down on illegal marijuana imports aince half the states now have legalized growth in some capacity or another. No sense in shipping pot to Wisconsin or Indiana when every state they border has a dispenseries directly across the state line. The DEA has to show that they are doing something, so they are cracking down on meth now
Meth is really tasty
Both have negative calories?
The most intense bump on a log you’ve ever had.
At least the junkies are eating healthy.
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