SPAIN – While bananas are making their debut as a royal wedding cake flavor across the pond next year, the fresh produce variety has also been exploited of late for more nefarious purposes off a Spanish port. Earlier this month, Spain’s interior ministry announced that law enforcement officers seized six tons of cocaine stashed in banana boxes found aboard a container ship arriving from Medellín, Colombia.

Attempting to conceal over 5,000 bundles of the drug within one of six containers in a consignment of bananas, The Maritime Executive reports three culprits—including the head of the fruit and vegetable importer that had ordered the consignment—were arrested in connection with the discovery of $250 million worth of cocaine set to arrive at Catalonia’s international airport for different distributors.

While officials have intercepted cocaine in hollowed-out pineapples, pallets of papayas, bags of coconuts, and boxes of limes over the years, this banana bust is the nation’s largest cocaine seizure in 18 years, and the second largest in Spain’s history.

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