JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The global backlog in airline baggage loading has had a silver lining for Israeli police, who discovered a drug haul hidden in a suitcase that was X-rayed after it arrived a day late and went unclaimed.
The tinfoil-wrapped 7 kg (15 lb) of amphetamines worth some $600,000 were in a false bottom of the bag, which police allowed to be sent from Ben Gurion Airport to the Jerusalem address its owner had listed in his lost-and-found complaint, Kan TV said.
The suspect turned up to retrieve it and was arrested.
“We are in a period where many people having been losing their suitcase – and he was one of them,” police investigator Eran Asraf told Kan.
(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Robert Birsel)
