DUMAGUETE CITY, PHILIPPINES - Conniving convicts in the Philippines took to creative means to smuggle roughly $221,000 US dollars worth of shabu, a methamphetamine substance, into jail while incriminating coconuts in the process. The drugs, concealed inside the husks, were seized by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Dumaguete City on Sunday.

According to source The Philippine Star, jail warden Chief Inspector Prizel Arevalo reported that two visitors, an adult and a minor, delivered approximately 30 coconuts to inmate Joram Catan, who is now facing drug charges.

The coconuts were delivered alongside fruit cocktail and milk, allegedly to disguise the delivery as a dessert. Guards grew suspicious, however, when they realized six of the coconuts lacked the slosh of coconut water and realized they had been emptied and filled with drugs. This lead to the discovery of approximately one kilogram of shabu.

Arevalo told the source that the inmate denied knowledge of the surprise ingredient in the delivery.

Senior Superintendent Hernan Grande, Director of the BJMP in the region, added that the illegal drugs have been passed on to the Philippine National Police Crime Laboratory, and that the investigation is still ongoing.

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