Cocaine intercepted enroute to Vatican

Cocaine intercepted enroute to Vatican

March 24, 2014 11:27 AM By Andy Brooks


German customs agents discovered a stash of cocaine addressed to the Vatican in January, according to the Associated Press.

Officers at the Leipzig airport discovered 12 ounces of cocaine packed in 14 condoms inside a box of pillows coming from South America, according to a customs report.

The package had the generic post office address at the Vatican, so any one of the Catholic city-state’s 800 residents could have come in and claimed the package. Vatican police staked out the post office waiting for the package to be picked up, but the intended recipient must have been tipped off because nobody ever claimed it.

The amount of cocaine in the package was 12 ounces and had a street value of about $20,000 USD.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi told the A.P. that the Vatican police cooperated with German police in the investigation