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Around 40 lbs of high grade heroin smuggled inside almonds by an Afghan traveller, and worth million of dollars, was seized recentlyby customs officials at New Delhi's international airport.

The heroin, worth a reported US $4 million, was packed into grooves



Earlier this month, border agents uncovered more than 4,000 pounds of marijuana hidden among limes. In two incidents in early July, border agents found well over 200 pounds of meth hidden in shipments of jalape os and cucumbers. Farther south, in mid-July Mexican marines intercepted a multiton shipment of cocaine hidden in containers of salsa and bound for Sinaloa state, from where it would almost certainly be smuggled to the US.

From fake carrots and real doughnuts to air cannons and catapults, here's a non-exhaustive list of clever ways traffickers have smuggled drugs.Stuffed chili peppers and fake carrots

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Drug traffickers have mixed legitimate business with their illicit activities, in part so that the former can conceal the latter. Vaunted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzm n, now in prison in Mexico, is no exception.

“He opened a cannery in Guadalajara and began producing thousands of cans stamped 'Comadre Jalape os,' stuffing them with cocaine,” Patrick Radden Keefe wrote in his New York Times Magazine profile of Guzm n, before “vacuum-sealing them and shipping them to Mexican-owned grocery stores in California.”

In one instance, according to a court in San Diego, 1,400 boxes of canned peppers, containing “hundreds of kilos of cocaine,” were intercepted at the border.

More recently, officials in Texas discovered a shipment of marijuana wrapped in orange tape and a concealed within a cargo of carrots. The bust uncovered more than a ton of weed worth a half-million dollars.

Drugs hidden within food shipments can make it deep into the US. In December, police in Chicago were tipped off to the arrival of a tomato shipment with 54 kilos of cocaine in it — drugs with a street value of almost 7 million.

Watermelons, pineapples, and other produce

In February 2014, just a few days before Guzm n was captured for the second time, it was reported that authorities in Culiac n, the capital of Sinaloa state, seized more than 4,000 cucumbers and plantains stuffed with cocaine.

In another case, a checkpoint in Arizona came across a shipment of marijuana that had been packaged in green plastic with yellow streaks — giving the bundles the appearance of watermelons.

Authorities on the US-Mexico border have also discovered crystal meth hidden in pineapples.

Some time in late 2014 or early 2015, Mexico soldiers confiscated packages of donuts covered not in powdered sugar — but instead “were sprinkled with cocaine,” according to BBC Mundo.

In late 2013, authorities in San Andr s Island in Colombia, a popular tourist destination, found almost a kilogram of cocaine hidden in 12 donuts.

Pastries seem to be a source of inspiration for drug traffickers. Authorities have also encountered cakes stuffed with amphetamines, BBC Mundo notes.

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