Officials seize marijuana stuffed into tombstone

Associated Press

CINCINNATI

Customs officials say they seized more than 50 pounds of marijuana from inside a tombstone being shipped from Jamaica to England through Cincinnati.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery with help from a narcotics-detection dog at the Cincinnati DHL Express hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.

Officers questioned last week why someone would ship a tombstone from Kingston, Jamaica, to London. An X-ray machine revealed packages of the drug in a metal box, wrapped in metal mesh and hidden inside the hollowed-out concrete marker.

The stone bears the name of 35-year-old Delroy Senior. Part of its inscription reads, “your place no one can fill.”

Authorities estimate the marijuana’s street value at about $52,000.

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