Liquid Cocaine Found In Fruit Juice Shipment

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MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida warehouse employee noticed the can of orange juice didn't quite smell right but took a sip anyway.

He called the cops when his tongue went numb.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday the 18-ounce (500-ml) can of juice from Jamaica contained liquid cocaine that would have sold for about $40,000 on the street.

It was probably bought at a Jamaican grocery store, emptied, injected with cocaine and packaged with a shipment of real fruit juice before being sent to Fort Lauderdale on a plane, agents said. The can bore a label reading "Grace Fruit Drink."

"It was a warehouse employee who found it. It smelled bad but he took a sip of it. It didn't taste very good and his tongue went numb," said Nina Pruneda, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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1. So *that's* how they make Fruitopia!