Overview
- German customs said they seized 16.5 kilograms of cocaine at Nuremberg Airport, marking the biggest cocaine find there in two decades.
- Airport lost-and-found staff flagged an unclaimed suitcase, and an X-ray showed it held only bricks of pressed cocaine.
- Passenger data linked the bag to a 72-year-old Spanish man who had checked it in at Guayaquil, Ecuador, for a flight to Nuremberg.
- The traveler left the suitcase on the carousel, flew on to Barcelona, and asked the airline to forward the bag, where local police arrested him when he came to collect it.
- Customs disclosed the case only now for investigative reasons, and specialist anti-narcotics units in Bavaria are handling the cross-border probe.