Alaska man arrested for $400,000 of heroin and meth stuffed in rotten goat guts

Maybe not the best place to hide your stash.

An elderly Alaska man was detained after authorities found him at an airport carrying $400,000 worth of heroin and methamphetamine stuffed inside frozen, rotten goat intestines.

Here's the Department of Justice news release.

Mr. Cenen Placencia, 71, of Kodiak, Alaska was arrested Wednesday at the Anchorage international airport, per authorities.

From Associated Press:

Investigators with Alaska State Troopers searched a large fish box the 71-year-old man had checked as luggage, according to an affidavit filed with the charges. Placencia gave his consent to search, according to the affidavit signed by a special agent with the Coast Guard Investigative Service.

Inside the box was loosely wrapped frozen meat, with multiple small pieces of meat frozen together, according to the affidavit, which says Placencia consented to the meat being thawed for further investigation.

Investigators smelled the odor of rotting meat as it thawed, and a police dog detected the presence of drugs, the affidavit says. Before the meat finished thawing, Placencia withdrew his consent for a search, prompting authorities to obtain a search warrant, the court document says.

Resuming the search, investigators found packages wrapped in plastic that contained about 740 grams of heroin and 389 grams of methamphetamine.

An affidavit says quantities of heroin, meth, and nearly $2,280 in suspected drug proceeds were seized from the man's home in March. The drugs cops found at his house aren't part of the current charges, assistant U.S. Attorney Christina Sherman told a reporter. Read the rest