Hole-y Vessel: Victor Hugo Mireles-Andrade Smuggled Coke In Virgin Mary Plaques

23-year-old Victor Hugo Mireles-Andrade knows that, when smuggling coke, it’s important to have the good Lord on your side, hallelujah. So when he decided to hide $147,000 worth of coke in four, hollowed-out plaques of La Virgensita, he knew nothing could go wrong! Except for eventually being intercepted by the po po and ending up on Guanabee:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized about five pounds of cocaine after they stopped Victor Hugo Mireles-Andrade, 23, a U.S. citizen from Chicago. The drugs have a street value of almost $147,000.

Agents said Mireles-Andrade walked to the pedestrian checkpoint at the bridge and turned over his suitcase to officers for a routine x-ray examination. The x-ray revealed the cocaine inside the hollow wooden plaques.

They don’t call it the devil’s dandruff for nothing. This is why you should smuggle coke in unused tampon dispensers. Not that we know anything about that.

Agents: Suspect uses Virgin Mary to smuggle cocaine [Brownsville Herald]