Cocaine shipment ends up at United Nations headquarters in New York

35.5 pound consignment of cocaine lost by Mexican drug traffickers has turned up in an unlikely place — the United Nations in New York. Police and UN officials Thursday told how two fake UN diplomatic pouches containing drugs — which experts said had a street value of more than $2 million— sparked an alert when they were delivered by accident to the global body’s headquarters. The bags, which had the UN symbol printed on them, were shipped from Mexico through the DHL shipping company’s center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne of the New York Police Department told AFP. But the bags had no address on them, nor any return to sender details.