Canadian border agents stopped a woman trying to get through the Montreal airport with three pumpkins filled with cocaine on Halloween Thursday.
"Instead of being filled with candies, three pumpkins carried by a female traveler at Montreal-Trudeau Airport contained nearly two kilograms of suspected cocaine," the Canada Border Services Agency wrote in a press release.
The three pumpkins of variant sizes and colors had been hollowed out and filled with bags of what officers suspected was 4.4 pounds of cocaine. The female traveler made her way through security holding a carry-on bag filled with the pumpkins. Scanning equipment picked up images of the pumpkins filled with hulking piles of some kind of substance. Upon further inspection, the masses within turned out to be bags stuffed with white powder. The alleged drugs were sent to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police office for further inspection.
According to CBS News, a spokesperson from the border agency could not specify where the passenger was from, nor where she was headed. It's still unclear whether she was a Canadian citizen as well.
Some media reports have dubbed the pumpkins "Crack-O-Lanterns."
Since the beginning of this year, the CBSA reported their agents have made 173 drug seizures, including 10 cocaine captures.
This wasn't the first time a curious package turned up at the Montreal-Trudeau airport this week - on Monday, the Canadian Press reported that a package containing bomb-making materials was discovered in the bag of 71-year-old male passenger. Although the explosives themselves were not in the package, all other items necessary to create an explosive were present. The 71-year-old man was detained for questioning.
