BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Customs and Border Protection officers in Baltimore discovered hashish hidden inside seashells in air cargo from Nigeria on September 30.
Hashish is a drug made from the compressing and processing trichomes of the cannabis plant
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Credit: Baltimore CBP
Credit: Baltimore CBP
Credit: Baltimore CBP
Officers at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport field-tested the brown substance and found it was hashish, weighing a total of a little more than 38 grams.
The parcel was meant to be sent to an address in Baltimore County.
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