Limp Offense: 21,600 Fake Viagra Pills Found at MIA
50 pounds of pills confiscated at airport
By BRIAN HAMACHER
Updated 12:30 PM EST, Fri, Oct 23, 2009
There was plenty of excitement at Miami International Airport when a box containing 21,600 Viagara pills raised the suspicions of Customs and Border Protection officers.
It wasn't hard to figure out that the little blue pills, all 50 pounds of them, were fake, according to the CBP.
To be sure, samples from the shipment, which was coming from India and confiscated on Oct. 9, were sent to a lab for testing.
The test determined the member-boosting pills were as worthless for an erection as a cold swim.
“The people who traffic in this type of crime not only steal from legitimate companies, but they also dupe the unknowing consumer into buying items that are of unknown origin and manufacture," CBP director Harold Woodward said in a statement.
Stiff sentences await the perpetrators, if they can be brought to justice.
First Published: Oct 23, 2009 11:12 AM EST
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