Baked beans and drugs? Men tried to smuggle $340,000 worth of cocaine in baked bean cans

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Baked beans and drugs? Men tried to smuggle $340,000 worth of cocaine in baked bean cans
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Two men attempted to smuggle $341,875 worth of cocaine in baked beans and condensed coconut milk tins. They were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

When both men flew from London to St. Lucia in 2018, they told officials they were going on a holiday. Officials recorded the men had a can sealer in their luggage. In St. Lucia, Kelly mailed the cans filled with cocaine and used a fake driving license as identification.

On Jan. 23, 2020, police charged Kelly, who was serving time in prison for a different offense. Gilhooly was arrested on March 9. They were both charged with fraud and importing drugs – the specific charge of "being concerned in the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition on the importation of a Class A drug.

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