Feds seize cocaine Jesus

[crispini]

Best. Bandname. Evah.

Feds Seize Cocaine Jesus
Man busted after dog sniffs drug in statue at Texas border crossing
MAY 29--Meet Cocaine Jesus. Federal agents last week arrested a Mexican national for allegedly paying a woman to smuggle into the U.S. a statue that was made of a dried cocaine paste. The carefully painted religious icon, pictured below, weighed about six pounds and would have had a street value of about $30,000. The statue was confiscated at a Texas border crossing after a drug-sniffing dog alerted to it during an inspection of a vehicle driven by a Mexican woman. The woman later told agents that she was paid $80 by a man who wanted the statue delivered to him at a Laredo bus station. The man, Bernardino Garcia-Cordova, was arrested when the apparently unwitting female mule identified him for investigators, according to a felony cocaine distribution complaint filed May 27 in U.S. District Court in Laredo. When questioned by agents, the 61-year-old Garcia-Cordova, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident, initially acknowledged that Cocaine Jesus was his, but then claimed he was only helping to smuggle the statue on the behalf of a man known only by the nickname "La Arana," or The Spider. Cocaine Jesus, he claimed, was supposed to be delivered to The Spider in Dallas.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0529083jesus1.html

[Deja Q]

1. Caught in his own tangled web... it also adds a new dimension to the phrase

Snortin' Jesus...

:hide:

[east texas lib]

2. Lines for the Lord! Hallelujah!

[pokerfan]

3. Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,

Long as I have my Cocaine Jesus.

I see from google that someone already beat me to it, but that was my first thought.

[mitchum]

4. "Snort...this my body..."

[crispini]

7. LOL! nt

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. Thou shalt not kilo.

:yoiks:

[FloridaJudy]

6. It was transubstantiation, honest!

Officer, I swear it started out as baking soda...