The Virgin Mary's been a busy girl lately. She's been spotted hanging out under a bridge in Moline, Illinois and just avoided being cast into a fire in Janesville, Wisconsin. Now the Feds have caught Mary helping a cocaine cartel smuggle the Devil's dandruff into Brooklyn, New York.
"Like grave robbers who have no respect for the dead, this drug organization used revered tombstones to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into New York City," said John Gilbride, the special agent in charge of the New York DEA office.
According to a Drug Enforcement Agency press release yesterday, five tombstones in the image of the Virgin were packed with cocaine were seized in a raid of a Brooklyn warehouse yesterday.
"They were dead wrong. We were on top of what they were doing. We seized their drugs and put an end to their organization," Gilbride said.
The DEA's total haul came to over 200 kilos of cocaine worth about $40 million. The 12 busts were a result of an 18-month investigation into a gang based out of Monterrey, Mexico with a network that distributes all over the country.
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