Toys as drug carriers? Well, it turns out that’s not just done in movies.
“Bureau of Customs (BOC) examiners at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) terminals have started checking stuffed toys brought by passengers after 200 methamphetamine tablets were found in a teddy bear bound for South Africa last week,” reports Rudy Santos in The Philippine Star.
NAIA customs district collector Edgar Macabeo related that “the tablets were found hidden in the teddy bear’s hands, legs and head when the toy passed through the x-ray machine manned by BOC personnel at a courier firm’s warehouse.”
Macabeo explained this is the first time they found illegal drugs hidden in a stuffed toy, which was sent by a certain Jason Thomas from Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro to a “Miss H. Thompson” in South Africa. Officials believe the sender’s name is fictitious (of course!).
So, from now on, toys will be scrutinized at NAIA.
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