WASHINGTON: Guyanese national nabbed smuggling cocaine inside cans of diced fruit came up with story that’s nuttier than a fruitcake.
Colin McKenzie allegedly told the feds that he thought he was smuggling diamonds.
McKenzie, 48, and his two suitcases were selected for inspection by Customs and Border Protection officers after he stepped off a Caribbean Airlines flight at Kennedy Airport.
Inside the suitcases were three large tin cans that McKenzie claimed contained diced fruit.
But the cans “felt unusually heavy and did not feel as though it contained liquid or syrupy material,” U.S. Department of Homeland Security special agent Edward Gonzalez said in aBrooklyn Federal Court complaint.
The cans were X-rayed and showed they contained material of a uniform, not liquidy, composition, according to the complaint.
