Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2013 03:59 PM EDT
Pumpkins seized as evidence are pictured in this undated handout photo. The Canada Border Services Agency says it busted a woman with cocaine-filled pumpkins at Trudeau Airport on Halloween.
MONTREAL — Call them crack-o-lanterns.
The Canada Border Services Agency says it busted a woman with cocaine-filled pumpkins at Trudeau Airport on Halloween.
She spent Halloween in a jail cell after the coke-gorged gourds made guards suspicious.
"When we searched her luggage, the pumpkins that we found seemed heavy," Canada Border Services Agency spokeswoman Jacqueline Roby said.
"We decided to open the pumpkins and there were bags of cocaine, in the pumpkins."
Mounties interrogated the suspect and she faces unspecified charges.
"Perhaps they thought that there were a lot of pumpkins coming into the country, which is not the case, and that we wouldn't be careful, but it was not the case," Roby said.
Strange places drugs have been stashed:
September 2013
A Canadian woman was detained in Bogota, Colombia, and accused of faking a pregnancy with a prosthetic belly full of cocaine.
March 2013
Passenger from Jamaica arrested after landing at Montreal's Trudeau Airport with 31.9 kg of cocaine hidden in 63 packages of powdered soy milk, authorities allege.
March 2012
British woman faces deportation after she allegedly smuggled 3.5 kg of cocaine from Jamaica in packages of cake mix.
March 2012
Searches uncovered $8 million worth of cocaine at Toronto's Pearson Airport, hidden in women's shorts, golf bags and hockey pants.
February 2012
Toronto reggae singer and three others charged after authorities say more than $5 million in cocaine arrived at Pearson Airport from Jamaica, hidden in hollowed out star apples from Guyana.
December 2011
Border agents at Trudeau Airport seized 310 kg of cocaine worth $14 million that was concealed in hundreds of sunflower oil bottles.
Cocaine-Filled Pumpkins Seized at Trudeau Airport
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