Brooklyn man busted at JFK Airport for trying to smuggle 1 kilo of cocaine inside fudge packages.
BY John Marzulli (NYDailynews). How sweet — and illegal — it is.
A Brooklyn man was busted at Kennedy Airport for allegedly trying to smuggle a kilo of cocaine inside fudge candy.
Noel Llewellyn, 64, stepped off a JetBlue flight from Trinidad on Tuesday and presented his zebra-striped suitcase for inspection to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.
Inside the suitcase were four boxes of Tortuga chocolate rum fudge. Further inspection by the officers turned up a white powdery filling that field-tested positive for cocaine, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Llewellyn, who works for Delta Airlines, gave investigators several different stories about the contraband and his frequent travels to Trinidad and Tobago, claiming he gets discounted tickets from his employer.
He said he had packed the zebra suitcase himself, then tried to sugarcoat the story by claiming that his sister-in-law gave him the boxes of fudge to bring to the U.S., according to the complaint.
Llewellyn was released Wednesday on $100,000 bail. His federal defender did not respond to a request for comment.