Jesus, as in the son of God, not my primo in the Bronx, was caught wearing cocaine in Laredo, Texas. Allow me to clarify, a statue of Jesus was confiscated in Laredo, Texas, after it was discovered that the statue was made of cocaine. I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
Drug traffickers mixed as much as six pounds of the illicit white powder into a paste and used it to make a regal statue of the Christian savior, complete with painted-on flowing hair and a gold cape.
Smugglers were likely hoping the statue, which could be worth as much as $30,000 on the streets, would be dismissed by border guards as just another of the hundreds of plaster representations hawked to borderland tourists.
That santo would have brought a whole new meaning to communion with God.
Via / Mun 2 Daily Dos, Neatorama
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1 Response to Nuestro Señor del Perico
Julia
June 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Actually, from my (admittedly limited) reading on “the old west”, this used to happen quite a bit…groups of Mexicans who went norte to work in camps & would request figures of Jesus (or Guadelupe) to be sent to their camps… and unknown to them, a landowner/crook would fill them with “goodies” to be smuggled across the frontier. The figures were then intercepted en route by someone else in the landowner/crook’s “business” posing as a simple robber….or if that missed, the figures were “reclaimed” from the camp in a predictably violent manner.
Can’t remember more details, but this always struck me as a memorable tactic; maybe “modern” smuggling isn’t so new after all!