Customs and Border Protection officials have added bed posts to the long list of unusual items couriers have used to smuggle drugs in the United States through D.C.-area airports. CBP officers found cocaine-filled bed posts in a group of items belonging to a courier who arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport on Thursday, authorities said.
CBP spokesman Steve Sapp said the courier was a 26-year-old man from Guatemala who arrived on a flight from El Salvador.
The man is not facing criminal charges. Sapp said he didn’t know why the man wasn’t charged, but said couriers sometimes don’t face arrest if they can’t be strongly tied to the cocaine or drug operation.
The man was transporting 8.64 ounces of cocaine with a street value of $17,000, according to CBP.
– Emily Babay
