Cops find half-ton of cocaine in Nespresso plant's coffee bean shipment
CBSN
Geneva — Swiss police said Thursday they had seized more than 500 kilograms, or about half a ton, of cocaine from a shipment of coffee beans delivered to a Nespresso plant. Workers at the plant in Romont, in the western Swiss canton of Fribourg, alerted authorities on Monday to a mysterious white powder found in sacks of coffee beans, police said.
Staff at the coffee capsule maker, owned by Swiss food giant Nestle, "found an undetermined white substance when they unloaded the freshly delivered sacks of coffee beans," Fribourg police said.
Police analysis determined the substance was cocaine. A search of five shipping containers "delivered the same day by train allowed for the seizure of more than 500 kilos (1,103 pounds) of this drug," police added.
