BOSTON: Bail has been set at $250,000 for a Randolph man accused of trying to smuggle more than 200 grams of cocaine into Boston using a pair of Christmas decorations, The Patriot Ledger reported.
Prosecutors say Nonso Obiora, 28, was arrested on trafficking charges Tuesday after he went to a Dorchester home to pick up a package that had been shipped there through UPS. He was arraigned Wednesday and is due back in court Jan. 5.
Prosecutors said the package, which was shipped from Columbia, had been turned over to Customs and Border Protection agents late last week after it arrived at a UPS facility. Its manifest identified its contents as “Christmas decorations” and inside agents found 230 grams cocaine hidden in two cardboard tubes wrapped in glittery foil, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said officers went to a Dorchester home that the package had been sent to and talked to a woman who said she’d agreed to accept the package for someone else. Obiora was arrested when he came to pick it up, they said.
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