A Guyanese man arriving in the U.S. was arrested after he allegedly tried smuggling cocaine hidden in containers of curry and rice, the New York Daily News reported.
Oral Anthony Caines arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport last Wednesday on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Georgetown when he was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
An agent searched his luggage and found several containers of rice and curry, which had bags of cocaine stashed underneath the food in each container, according to a Brooklyn Federal Court complaint obtained by the Daily News.
Caines, 55, told the officers he was paid $5,000 to bring the food, and the drugs, to New York City, Homeland Security agents said in the complaint.
The traveler was held without bail at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, the Daily News reported.
The cocaine bust comes a month after another traveler arriving from Guyana was busted for smuggling cocaine hidden in three bags of custard and three bags of powdered milk, CBP agents said.
In more drug news, in October CBP agents were conducting a routine inspection of a shipment of wine arriving from Panama when they found 35 pounds of cocaine concealed in a container of booze.
