A Brooklyn fish company owner was convicted after feds found over $8 million worth of cocaine in a shipping container importing frozen shrimp. The fishy story joins some of the places where cocaine has been discovered, like the $56 million worth of cocaine found in a Coca Cola factory, or the seven grams found in a man’s foreskin.
The New York Daily Newsreported that Heeralall Sukdeo, owner of fish company Sukdeo Sons Fishing, was convicted by a Brooklyn Federal Court Friday.
Authorities (thanks to the work of some drug-sniffing dogs) found 250 kilos of cocaine in a container of frozen shrimp shipped from Georgetown, Guyana to New York’s Red Hook Pier in June of last year. Sukdeo, alias “Randolph Fraser,” was caught “red handed,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Harris said in court. “The defendant is a drug smuggler.”
Sukedo's excuse was that he was conned by a relative, and was left hung out to dry. The judge apparently didn't buy his, um, fishy story, and with good reason. The New York Post reported that each individual package of frozen shrimp in the shipment had a phone number on it—one that was traced back to Sukdeo. The shipment was addressed to "Randolph Fraser," and one witness told police that not only did he know Sukdeo by that name, but that the fish company boss actually rented space at a warehouse using that alias.
