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Feds seize $400,000 of cocaine at O'Hare   Send a link to a friend

[August 28, 2007]  CHICAGO  (AP) -- Federal officials seized 20 kilograms of cocaine worth $400,000 smuggled inside checked baggage at O'Hare International Airport, the officials said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found the cocaine during a routine inspection of a TACA Airlines flight from Guatemala, officials said.

The drugs were hidden inside four vehicle tow bars that had been checked by two men from El Salvador. Officials say the cocaine was wrapped in plastic bags and stuffed inside the hollow metal bars.

U.S. Customs says the drugs were turned over to the Chicago Police Department. A police spokesman didn't immediately have information on the bust or if anyone was arrested.

[Associated Press]

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