Fishing for Jeans, She Hooks a Big Stash
A woman fishing for blue jeans that blew off a clothesline and into a canal snared a sack of cocaine worth $170,000, police said Wednesday.
Spokesman Ger de Jong said the woman was trying to retrieve the pants when she hooked a brown canvas school bag Monday. Suspicious of its tightly taped contents, she took the bag to the police.
The watertight package contained a set of scales, a small bottle of ammonia, two grams of amphetamines and 2.9 pounds of cocaine, De Jong said.
The woman, who was not identified, didn’t find her jeans.
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