15 lbs of cocaine shipped to Mississippi school for the 2nd time in a week [View All]

[Wonk]

By MARGARET BAKER
THE SUN HERALD

HURLEY - Fifteen pounds of cocaine found in a ground-meat box at East Central Upper Elementary School came from the same shipment sent to an Ellisville school, where 15 pounds of cocaine was found in a ground meat box last week.

A cafeteria worker at the Hurley school found the cocaine in a box stamped Lot No. 021 early Monday morning.

"Some of the ground meat was taken out, and in its place was six bricks of cocaine," Lark Christian, food service director for the Jackson County School District, said Thursday. "When she was lifting the box to put it on a shelf, she knew it felt unusual. When she went back to check that box, sure enough it had been tampered with. It was the same lot number that Ellisville had."

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"It came out of Texas," Dickey said. "The meat was not contaminated with cocaine. I wouldn't want anyone to think that the cocaine was mixed in with the ground beef."

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