Man busted trying to smuggle cocaine inside containers of curry and rice at Kennedy Airport
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer goes through a traveler's suitcase looking for illegal narcotics at John F. Kennedy Airport.
(David Handschuh/New York Daily News)NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, December 20, 2014, 1:47 AM
He's cooked.
A Guyanese national was arrested at Kennedy Airport trying to smuggle cocaine inside plastic containers of curry and rice.
Oral Anthony Caines, 55, was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on Wednesday after arriving on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Georgetown, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
The officer found a plastic bag containing cocaine under a layer of food in each food container stashed in his luggage.
Caines said he was paid $5,000 to bring the take-out order of food and drugs to New York City, Homeland Security special agent David Schrader said in the complaint.
He was ordered held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
