A former employee of the U.S. Embassy smuggled cocaine in Marlboro cartons and Choco-pie boxes into the United States, the Department of Justice said in an indictment unsealed Wednesday in federal court.

Jairo Eliezer Arias Caceres, a security officer in the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic, smuggled cocaine into various airports in the New York area by disguising the cocaine in various packages, court documents alleged.

Cocaine was smuggled in Choco-pie packages from the Dominican Republic to the United States, the DOJ says. Department of Justice

Prosecutors accuse Arias Caceres, 35, of building a transnational conspiracy from April 2023 to about December 2023 in which he recruited couriers, paid for and arranged for their travel to and from the Dominican Republic to the Unit

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