Colombia Piano - Anti-narcotics police discover 253 kilos of cocaine stuffed inside a piano
NAME: COL PIANO 20070716I
TAPE: EF07/0843
IN_TIME: 10:21:46:24
DURATION: 00:01:13:18
SOURCES: POLICE HANDOUT
DATELINE: Cartagena, 16 July 2007
RESTRICTIONS:
SHOTLIST
1. Police officers taking off top of piano
2. Piano were the drugs were hidden
3. Close of hand using hammer and chisel to open piano
4. Mid shot of police officer taking off part of the piano's surface during search
5. Various shots of police officers opening the piano
6. Close shot of police touching the piano's keyboard after finding cocaine
7. Mid shot of boxes of cocaine after they were taken out of the piano
8. Wide shot of police officers standing by the piano and the drugs
STORYLINE
Colombian anti-narcotics police discovered 253 kilos (558 pounds) of cocaine stuffed inside a piano on Sunday that was going to be shipped to Panama.
The piano was seized at Cartagena's port, about 405 miles (651 kilometres) north of Bogota, when a police inspector noticed the piano was too heavy.
Later, he found it contained about five (m) million US dollars worth of pure cocaine, Colombian police said in a statement.
In an effort to stay one step ahead of the law, traffickers in the world's number one cocaine-producing country have long found creative means of camouflaging their drugs for export.
Panama is a transit route for Colombian cocaine headed to the United States.
Ninety percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States comes from Colombia.