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Cocaine Bricks in a Huge $7M Bust Were Stamped With the YouTube Logo
South American drug traffickers are taking YouTube monetization to an entirely new level. Authorities in Uruguay recently seized 444 kilos of cocaine, of which several bricks were stamped with the YouTube logo. Other packages had stickers of the YouTube logo plastered on them. The cocaine was discovered in the central Tacuarembo department of the South American country, which has become a popular transshipment destination for cocaine heading to Europe and Africa. Police Chief Guillermo Maciel said during a press conference in Tacuarembo on Monday that their initial hypothesis was “that [the cocaine] would not stay ... (full story)