C.B.P. News Release

Joint CBP, ICE Inspection Nets Cruise Ship Heroin, Cocaine

CBP K-9 Sniffs out Nearly $100k in Dangerous Drugs on Enchantment of the Seas

(Monday, January 10, 2011)

Baltimore – A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) K-9, during a joint CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations inspection, discovered more than two pounds of cocaine and heroin stored in a locker aboard the cruise ship Enchantment of the Seas in Baltimore on Saturday.

Bak, a narcotics detector dog, sniffed out two packages of heroin that weighed a combined one pound, eight ounces and a third package that contained more than 14 ounces of cocaine. Combined street value is estimated at about $94,000.

CBP officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents discovered nearly 2.5 pounds of heroin and cocaine combined inside an equipment locker during a joint inspection of the cruise ship Enchantment of the Seas in Baltimore Jan. 8, 2011. The three duct-taped drug packages, sniffed out by a CBP K-9, has an estimated street value of nearly $100,000.

The narcotics were discovered in an equipment locker. No arrests were made.

“The recent drug arrests of cruise ship crewmen illustrate the measures nefarious narcotics networks will take to transport their deadly poison into the United States,â€