Check the cupboards at my house at any given time and you’ll probably find a couple bottles of Sriracha. Its signature spiciness works well with all kinds of different dishes.
You can put Sriracha on just about anything. Apparently some people think that Sriracha’s usefulness doesn’t end with adding a little zing to food. Some thought, for example, that it’s a good way to smuggle drugs.
Those people thought wrong, as it turns out. Police in New South Wales, Australia discovered a massive shipment of methamphetamine that criminals tried to sneak into Australia inside bottles of the chili sauce.
All told, authorities seized around 400 kilograms of meth. The total street value of the contraband was just over $208 million.
Officials with the Australian Border Force discovered the illicit contents through routine testing. It’s believed that the shipment was on its way to a major drug lab in the greater Sydney area where the methamphetamine was to be extracted.
Why… why did you have to pollute that delicious hot sauce?!?
Police say the Sriracha shipment was the work of a major drug syndicate that they’ve been tracking for quite some time. Three men were arrested as part of the operation earlier this month and a fourth was picked up today.
As far as the smuggling tactic goes, this sort of thing isn’t new. Criminals have tried all sorts of crazy ways to avoid the long arm of the law in Australia (and pretty much everywhere else on the globe). Previous busts have uncovered large quantities of meth stashed inside the tires of heavy duty trucks and construction vehicles, industrial equipment, shipments of toilets, snow globes, and even extension cords.
Stateside, Customs officials have found drugs packed into a woman’s breast implants, hidden under the seat of a wheelchair, stuffed inside a Wiipad (somebody had to be buying them, right?), and even baked into crayons. As one police officer put it, “if you can imagine it, someone’s already done it.”
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