Tesco staff find cannabis in load of strudel
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• Trucks delivering to Tesco's depot in Kent were found to contain 70kg of cannel:* hidden among boxes of apple strudel.
Customs officers are still trying to track the drug dealers behind the consignment of drugs—with a street value of some £250,000—which was discovered last Sunday while Tesco staff unpacked for the day's trading.
The load had originated in Germany; having crossed the Channel it was delivered to 10 stores in the South-East, via Tesco's regional distribution centre at Snodiand. A Tesco spokesman says the packages were found by staff in between the boxes of strudel. They raised the alarm and the police were called in immediatel}c The strudel was not contaminated and the drugs did not get onto the shelves.
Investigators hope to discover how the gang were going to collect the drugs.
A Customs spokesman says: "This is obviously a smuggling operation which has gone wrong."
Neither Tesco nor Customs will say which haulier brought the strudel into the country.