Sometimes even Easter eggs aren't always what they are cracked up to be.
A Miami man was arrested at the Los Angeles International Airport after agents went on an egg hunt in his luggage and found dozens of cocaine-filled plastic Easter eggs.
Esteban Galtes, 23, had told authorities the cocaine candy were for his two children. But unless his children are named Tony Montana or Bobby Brown, that excuse wasn't going to fly and neither was Galtes, who was charged with importation of a controlled substance.
“Drug traffickers are always trying novel ways to conceal their contraband,” said Claude Arnold, special agent for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles. “But cocaine camouflaged as Easter candy is one of the more unusual tactics we’ve come across. Obviously two days before Christmas, this defendant didn’t expect his trip would end with federal officers conducting an Easter egg hunt.”
Galtes brought in close to 14 pounds of coke in his luggage, with some of it hidden in a shopping paper bag. The man was traveling from Colombia. The white powder was worth about $100,000 on the streets, ICE agents said.
If convicted, Galtes could be sentenced to life in prison.
It's the second unusual Easter egg find in as many weeks involving Miamians.
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