Discount Store Poppy Bust

A group of men were arrested in Washington state this week, for conspiring to bring an opium poppy shipment into Canada. The bust occured after they picked up the narcotics at a local discount store.

The men went to the Dollar Plus store, in Bellingham, and went in with empty bags, then came out with large amounts of the poppy seeds that are used to make opium, one of the most sought after illegal drugs for many addicts that wind up in treatment and drug rehab clinics.

Discount Store Poppy Bust
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Six men were arrested Wednesday, Sept. 1, on suspicion of intending to smuggle into Canada opium poppies that they allegedly picked up at a Bellingham discount store. Immigrations and Customs and Enforcement agents tailed a vehicle containing four of the men as it drove to the Dollar Plus store in the 4100 block of Meridian Street. Several of the men left the car and brought empty hockey bags into the store; a short while later they exited the rear of the store with full hockey bags, which they began to load into two vehicles, according to a police report read at the suspects' first appearance in Whatcom County Superior Court.

Discount Store Poppy Bust