Over 30 pounds of cocaine found inside man's electric wheelchair at BWI Airport

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More than 30 pounds of cocaine was found inside a man's electric wheelchair at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport last week.

CBP officers subsequently turned Ruiz and the cocaine over to MDTA Police officers. He faces state felony narcotics importation and possession charges. "Concealing dangerous drugs inside wheelchair seat cushions is unusual," said Thomas Heffernan, Acting Area Port Director for CBP’s Area Port of Baltimore in a statement.

Authorities say the 13 cocaine bricks weighed a combined 13.7 kilograms, or 30 pounds and three ounces. Interestingly, CBP officers in Charlotte, N.C., also discovered

 

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