Narco-bakers use different white powder in their bread


In a new development in drug smuggling techniques Colombian police found cocaine base baked into loaves of bread in the Bolivar department, El Espectador reported Monday.

After searching a suspected cocaine dealer’s “panaderia” (bakery) and finding nothing incriminating, an inquisitive officer broke open a loaf of bread to find cocaine base packaged inside.

The bust yielded a total of 50 small packets of cocaine base from the panaderia in the city of Carmen in northern Colombia.

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