The way babies eat, you never know what might end up in their diapers — but it’s typically not drugs.
Earlier this month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Cincinnati recovered a shit-ton of narcotics that were hiding within a shipment of diapers. The big load was intercepted on its way to Australia.
Within the diapers, officers found four pounds of methamphetamine. Betty, CBP’s narcotic-detecting dog, sniffed out the contraband.
A release from CBP contains this glorious sentence: “The diapers appeared to be firm and unusually heavy.”
“The Port of Cincinnati officers are taught to look outside the box when looking for narcotics and they do a wonderful job finding those illegal shipments,” Cincinnati Port Director Richard Gillespie says in the release.
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This article appears in Nov 10-23, 2021.