A tip-off has led Judiciary Police to a warehouse in Palmela, in the Lisboa Region, where a consignment of melons from Brazil was found to be packed with cocaine. According to reports, the cocaine was hidden within the melons in little sachets. The melon’s where made to look whole again with the use of a form of vegetable glue.
The large amount of drugs (more than six million individual doses) has been valued at between €12 and 19 million. It appears the Palmela warehouse was simply incidental in the trafficking route. No arrests have been made. Setúbal PJ is described as “trying to identify the authors of the drug trafficking”. The melons arrived in paletts via Setúbal port from Brazil and were due to be transported by road to Belgium.
Source: portugalresident.com