"So far, it just sounds like a tale of drug smuggling gone awry. Except that the coke, stacked together in neat bricks and wrapped in plastic, as shown in a video from local police obtained by Alagoas, sported a distinctive label: the official SpaceX logo, in blue and white, giving the story a bizarre space-age twist."
"The case remains under investigation, local law enforcement told Alagoas. The street value of the detained coke is unknown, but according to one recent estimate, the stuff goes for around $1,500 per kilo in Latin America, meaning the plane could have easily been carrying a quarter million dollars in illicit cargo. There's little to indicate where the pilot was headed and why were the drugs branded with the SpaceX logo, but this isn't the first time that a brand affiliated with Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO, has been slapped on some illegal drugs."
A single-engine plane crash-landed in a sugar cane field near Coruripe on Brazil's Atlantic coast, killing the pilot and leaving 180 kilograms of cocaine behind. The seized cocaine was stacked in neat, plastic-wrapped bricks bearing the official SpaceX logo in blue and white, and police video documented the packaging. The deceased pilot was identified as 46-year-old Timothy James Clark, an Australian businessman from Melbourne; the aircraft was registered in Zambia. Local authorities say the case remains under investigation. Estimated regional street value is about $1,500 per kilo, implying roughly a quarter million dollars in cargo. High-tech company branding on illicit drugs has occurred previously.
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