SMUGGLE BUST: JFK stash hidden in chocolate. (
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What’s the holiday season without a little “white” chocolate?
Authorities busted a woman at JFK Airport over the weekend — for allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine inside Swiss chocolate bars.
Ebony Gray, 22, had just stepped off a Caribbean Airlines jet from Trinidad Sunday when she was stopped by Customs and Border Protection officers suspicious of the bulging duty-free bag she was toting.
It was a sweet catch.
Inside the bag were eight boxes, supposedly of Toblerone chocolate bars.
But when officials opened the colorfully wrapped items, they instead found foil-wrapped, solid sticks of packed cocaine, as well as what looked like coke stuffed into other chocolate bars.
Customs officials sy the coke weighed a total of 3.3 kilos — or more than 7 pounds.
Gray was arraigned on drug-smuggling charges in Brooklyn federal court and released after posting $50,000 bond.