New York, USA /
The police of New York seized 50 kilograms of cocaine that had the stamp inscribed ‘CR7‘, the nickname and brand of the forward of the Juventus, Cristiano Ronaldo, reported the prosecutor’s office of that city.
The drug bales were seized in an operation carried out on March 29, in which two people were arrested and a gun and $ 200,000 in cash were also confiscated, according to a statement from the Narcotics Office from New York prosecutor’s office.
The alleged traffickers, identified as Christopher Jones Y Wykim Williams, They kept the money and the cocaine in a fancy apartment located in a residential complex in the Jamaica neighborhood, in the borough of Queens.
“In the apartment 50 intact packages of cocaine with the stamp ‘CR7’ were found, which were in a closet. CR7 is the alias of the popular Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo“, says the statement, which points out that the house also found material used for the distribution of narcotics on a large scale, such as a scale, machines for counting money or bags to close the vacuum.
According to the special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget Brennan, the stash of cocaine had a market value of two million dollars.
It is not the first time that the security forces Cocaine packages imprinted with the footballer’s first name seized from Juventus.
On November 26, the Naval Force of Nicaraguan Army reported that it had intercepted eight packages containing 340 packages of cocaine, most of them marked with the initials and the number “CR7“, in the Pacific Northwest.
The drug was seized this Wednesday in the sector of Cosigüina Peninsula, Department of Chinandega, in the northwest of Nicaragua, according to the Pacific Naval District report.
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