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UK: Former police officer accused of smuggling cocaine in pineapples

A retired police officer from the Merseyside area of the UK has, along with his brother, been accused of smuggling 13 million pounds worth of cocaine into the country in a shipment of pineapples.

Former intelligence officer Adrian Brown and Tony Brown, a former army corporal, allegedly ran a fruit importation company as a legitimate front to ship in more than 100kg of the Class A drug.

Ipswich Crown Court yesterday heard how bundles of cocaine were uncovered in a huge pallet of fresh pineapples allegedly ordered in by the Browns’ Knowsley-based company, Oska Catering Liverpool Ltd.

The illicit consignment was uncovered in January 2011 by Dutch customs workers in Rotterdam on a boat which had sailed from Costa Rica in South America.

The brothers deny being guilty of the offence.

Source: liverpoolecho.co.uk

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