Guatemalan man admits smuggling chocolate-covered heroin

  • A Guatemalan man on Thursday pleaded guilty in U.S. Federal Court in Trenton to attempting to smuggle three kilograms of heroin coated in chocolate
  • Jacobo Leonel Orellana-Estrada, 21, got off of a flight from Guatemala City at Newark Airport on June 11
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped him to search his luggage 
  • Authorities found six small, single-layer cakes that were actually packages of heroin coated in a thin layer of chocolate and wrapped in paper
  • Orellana-Estrada’s pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin
  • It leaves him facing a maximum penalty of life in prison

A man has admitted smuggling chocolate-covered heroin on a flight from Guatemala to Newark Liberty International Airport.

Jacobo Orellana-Estrada, 21, on Thursday pleaded guilty in federal court to possession with intent to distribute heroin.

Prosecutors say the Guatemalan citizen arrived in Newark on a flight in June and Customs officers discovered what appeared to be six small layer cakes in his luggage. 

The cakes turned out to be packages of heroin coated in a thin layer of chocolate and wrapped in paper.

The 21-year-old faces up to life in prison when he’s sentenced in January.

A Guatemalan man had admitted to smuggling chocolate-covered heroin through a New York-area airport (file photo)

Prosecutors say the Guatemalan citizen arrived in Newark, pictured, on a flight in June and Customs officers discovered what appeared to be six small layer cakes in his luggage

Prosecutors say the Guatemalan citizen arrived in Newark, pictured, on a flight in June and Customs officers discovered what appeared to be six small layer cakes in his luggage

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