Once custom officers opened the parcel they found more than 500 coffee beans that had been hollowed out, filled with cocaine and resealed using tape. Police in search of the intended recipient tracked the package to Italian city, Florence, and arrested a 50-year-old Italian man when he came to try and collect it from a tobacco shop.
The man who lived in the Colombian city of Medellin was already known to police and had previously been arrested on drug related charges.
Recently there’s been a wave of drug bust ups in Italy. Earlier this month, Italy’s Guardia di Finanza confiscated a huge shipment of 14 metric tones of amphetamines which they said had been produced by ISIS in Syria.