Crime & Safety
Kilos Of Cocaine Sent To 3 Wash. Safeway Stores In Banana Boxes
Grocery stores in Woodinville, Bellingham, and Federal Way got kilos of cocaine worth about $1 million.
WOODINVILLE, WA — Local and federal police are investigating how dozens of pounds of cocaine were shipped in banana boxes to three Safeway grocery stores in Western Washington.
On Sunday, two workers at a Woodinville Safeway found two banana boxes stuffed with about 50 pounds of drugs. When police arrived, they tested the packages and determined it was cocaine.
The King County Sheriff's Office is working with the Drug Enforcement Agency to figure out where the drugs were shipped from. The sheriff's office said the Woodinville cocaine shipment alone would be worth about $550,000 on the street.
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Similar shipments went to stores in Bellingham and Federal Way, according to KING 5. Police said all three shipments combined were worth about $1 million.
The sheriff's office said that Safeway employees have assisted in the investigation by searching other boxes — but no other drug shipments have been found.
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