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Over $19 million worth of cocaine was discovered last November inside 450 packages hidden among the fruit at the Savannah seaport U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release last week. The packages were shipped from Cartagena, Colombia according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The news release stated the packages weighed over 1,150 pounds of cocaine. A similar incident occurred in 2016 when more than $6 million worth of cocaine which was seized at the same port inside a container of frozen pineapples. The shipment was shipped from Costa Rica that included 350 pounds of cocaine.

The agency said it seizes more than 5,000 pounds of drugs on a typical day from ports of entry throughout the U.S. the newspaper reported. The incident remains under investigation.

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