Soup can shipment headed to Miami was hiding a psychedelic surprise. ‘No soup for you’
A delivery of canned vegetable soup concealed much more than a hearty meal after customs officers investigated the shipment headed to Miami.
Customs and Border Protection officials in Philadelphia were looking through international delivery packages on March 3 when they found a shipment of 12 soup cans, a news release said.
The liter-sized cans claimed to be “Dutch Canned Vegetable Chicken Soup,” but officers noticed they were leaking a mysterious purple liquid, the release said.
The liquid from the supposed soup cans from the Netherlands tested positive for MDMA, or a synthetic known as ecstasy, officials said.
“No soup for you,” officials announced in the news release, invoking the famous “Seinfeld” phrase.
The officers confiscated the liquid MDMA, which weighed about 24 pounds.
“Crooked consumers continue to purchase dangerous drugs and controlled substances from unscrupulous international vendors, chemicals that consist of unverified ingredients that could potentially harm or kill our nation’s citizens,” Joseph Martella, CBP’s area port director in Philadelphia, said in the release.
This story was originally published March 4, 2022 at 12:22 PM with the headline "Soup can shipment headed to Miami was hiding a psychedelic surprise. ‘No soup for you’."
