LONDON, UK - Many consumers look to their fruit processors to give their fresh produce a new life, but some have ulterior plans for the kitchen staple. A 32-year-old Spanish national was arrested in her in her Southeast London home after 9 kg of crystal meth and 250 kg of cocaine was found inside her industrial-sized fruit-processing machine. The shipment of drugs—worth £22 million, or $29+ million USD—was imported into the U.K. from Mexico through London Gateway Port on March 17^th, according to a recent BBC article.

Border Force topped the 3.5-ton fruit processor when they found the illicit substances tucked inside, the NCA said.

"Here we have a potentially lucrative plot by organized criminals to smuggle 259kg of Class A drugs into the UK, which would have eventually found itself being sold on the streets of London,” NCA’s Head of Specialist Operations John Coles said, according to the news source.

The accused woman will appear in Kingston Crown Court on June 7^th to enter a plea.

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