Byline: Associated Press
NEW YORK -- A couch stuffed with 400 pounds of cocaine -- worth about $8 million -- and dumped on a city sidewalk has been traced to an El Paso, Texas, couple, federal authorities announced Tuesday.
Eddie Gutierrez, 43, and Susan Hernandez, 39, were indicted in federal court in Manhattan on charges of transporting the couch, which held 182 kilograms of cocaine bricks, about 2,300 miles from Texas to New York.
The felonious furniture was discovered on a Bronx street in May, when sanitation workers saw white powder spilling from it as they tried to load it into their garbage truck.
Investigators with the Drug …
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