Agents Intercept Opium Shipment At DHL Facility – Cincinnati News Story – WLWT Cincinnati 

HEBRON, Ky. — Customs agents intercepted more than 150 pounds of opium Friday at a Hebron shipping company.

Authorities said agents discovered seven separate shipments of the drug during a routine screening of international parcels at the DHL facility at Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.

The parcels, which were shipped from Laos and bound for Minneapolis, were listed as “Hmong Traditional Medicine Tea," but instead contained plastic bags filled with wood twigs and dried leaves.

Agents said the leaves appeared to be saturated with an unknown substance that had a distinctive odor, and investigators said the substance tested positive for the presence of opiates.

Agents Intercept Opium Shipment At DHL Facility – Cincinnati News Story – WLWT Cincinnati