CBP finds 3.49 kg of marijuana in an air fryer bound for Bermuda
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Philadelphia found seven vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana, 3.49 kilograms, hidden inside an air fryer in a parcel mailed from Ocean County, New Jersey, to Bermuda. CBP valued the load at about $17,000 in the United States and about $150,000 in Bermuda and said its investigation continued.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Philadelphia found seven
vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana concealed inside an air fryer in an outbound
international parcel on 2 May 2023.[1]The package was addressed to Bermuda
and had been mailed from an address in Ocean County, New Jersey.[2]
The marijuana weighed a combined 3.49 kilograms, or seven pounds and 11 ounces,
and CBP put its U.S. street value at about $17,000.[1]CBP said the same load
would be worth about $150,000 in Bermuda, where it said high-potency U.S.
marijuana fetches prices many times higher than at home.[1]CBP said no arrest
had been reported in the parcel case and that an investigation continued.[3]CBP released photographs of the seven vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana found in
the air fryer.[4]
The consignment was seized a week after CBP officers in Philadelphia stopped a
traveller trying to take 72 pounds of marijuana in his checked luggage to
Dublin, Ireland, a different case.[3]Rene Ortega, acting area port director
for CBP’s Area Port of Philadelphia, said officers were seeing a stream of bulk
marijuana carried in baggage or shipped out of the country.[1]Ortega said
officers would keep seizing marijuana they encounter and seek consequences for
couriers, because possession and distribution remain illegal under federal law.[1]
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CBP gave the consignment's weight as 3.49 kilograms in its release while the submitted FOX 29 page rounds it to about 8 pounds; the report uses the agency's figure, about seven pounds and 11 ounces.
No sender, recipient, arrest or charge was reported; CBP said only that an investigation continued, and any outcome is not known.
The seized parcel was examined in Philadelphia but had been mailed from Ocean County, New Jersey, so the place recorded is the inspection point, not the sender's address.
The U.S. street value of about $17,000 and the Bermuda figure of about $150,000 are CBP estimates, not market prices the agency measured.
CBP did not say how the marijuana entered the air fryer, which mailing service carried the parcel, or whether it was sent to a person or an address in Bermuda.
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