The New York City Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) are investigating the discovery of packages containing 40 pounds (18kg) of cocaine at the headquarters of the United Nations last week.
A source told FOX News that the cocaine was first discovered when the packages were scanned by UN security.
In a statement Thursday, a spokesman for UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said two suspicious mail bags had been intercepted by UN security personnel.
The statement did not acknowledge what was found inside the bags.
"The United Nations nor anyone located in the United Nations was the intended recipient of this delivery and the bags were not UN bags, diplomatic or other," the statement said.
The spokesman noted that the investigation had been turned over to the DEA and NYPD and referred all further inquiries to those law enforcement agencies.
Contacted by NewsCore, a NYPD spokesman said he was aware of a "situation" at the UN last week but declined to elaborate.
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Nearly 40 pounds of cocaine stuffed inside hollowed-out textbooks were intercepted at the United Nations Headquarters’ mail room, officials announced Thursday.
Two bags - bearing only the UN symbol with no addressee or return address - were X-rayed around 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 16 by the Security and Safety Service after they were deemed suspicious by workers, police and a UN spokeswoman said.
The 35.6 pounds of powder wrapped in plastic were plunked into 14 textbooks and placed inside “makeshift unauthorized diplomatic pouches”, NYPD’s top spokesman Paul Browne said.
The packages - originating from Mexico City - arrived at a DHL shipping facility in Cincinnati then arrived at the UN’s private postal processing location on E. 48th St. between First Ave. and the FDR Drive, Browne said.
“Neither the United Nations nor anyone located in the United Nations was the intended recipient of this delivery and the bags were not UN bags, diplomatic or other,” the UN said in a statement.
The coke was handed over to the NYPD and the Drug Enforcement Agency, a spokeswomen for the UN said.
“It’s an ongoing investigation with us and the NYPD,” said Drug Enforcement Administration Spokeswoman Erin Mulvey.
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