Authorities said cocaine valued at more than $1 million combined has been found with shipments of bananas at three Safeway grocery stores in Washington state—Woodinville, Bellingham, and Federal Way.
The King County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Safeway workers at a store in Woodinville found two boxes containing what appeared to be “multiple packages of suspected narcotics” while unstacking boxes of bananas in the store’s back room on Aug. 18. Deputies determined the packages contained about 49 pounds of cocaine, adding that the two boxes have a combined street value of around $550,000.
