Two men were arrested after authorities discovered they were trafficking drugs disguised as brand-name candy, according to NWCN.
The King County Sheriff's Office said the first suspect, 46-year-old Jesus Rodriguez Horta, was arrested at a motel in Kent, Washington and the second suspect, whose identity has not been released, was arrested in Juneau, Alaska.
An investigation began into Horta after authorities learned he was the main supplier of cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine to street-level dealers in North Seattle, Edmonds, and Shoreline.
He was also sending the drugs in packages to Juneau. Once detectives got their hands on one of the packages, they learned the drugs were being disguised as chocolates.
"It was a new style. Something they [detectives] hadn't seen before," King County Sheriff's Sgt. DB Gates said. "Bad guys are always trying to come up with ways to hide what they're doing."
Officials uncovered a total of 745 grams of heroin, 135 grams of methamphetamine, 90 grams of cocaine, and 300 grams of ephedrine.
"They had information he had been dealing drugs and heard he was mailing packages up to Alaska," Gates said.
In order to make the arrests, the sheriff's office said they collaborated with the Juneau Police Department and the U.S. Postal Service.
In the charging documents, authorities said they discovered "plastic molds, which matched the shape and size of the balls of heroin concealed in the box of chocolates" in the room Horta had been staying in.
Last year, authorities in Massachusetts seized over 1,000 bags of heroin labled "OBAMA CARE."
"I think it's whatever the person decides to put on it. So if the junkies who are buying them go, 'Wow, that Obamacare stuff was really good,'" said Lt. Daniel Richard. "They label them with everything, so it's not bizarre."
Oddly enough, this is not the first time illegal drugs have been branded with President Barack Obama's name. In 2012, POLITICO reported his name had become popular to use ever since the 2008 election.
"The Commander-in-Chief's name and face has been slapped on a wide variety of contraband products including ecstasy pills, LSD tabs, heroin baggies and a popular strain of medical marijuana," according to a report in Politicker, including 26 different types of Ecstasy pills.
