article_snippet: Three men who smuggled more than 230lbs of cocaine hidden inside plastic bananas  have been jailed for a total of 59 years.
article_snippet: Leonel Hernandez-Gonzalez, 37, Oscar Alberto Grisales-Cuervo, 46, and Daniel Valdes Jaramillo, 24, worked with Colombian drug lords to bring in cocaine worth £25million in a consignment of bananas, hiding the drugs among the real fruit.
article_snippet: Drug smugglers: Daniel Valdes Jaramillo, 24, and Leonel Hernandez-Gonzalez, 37, have been found guilty of smuggling £25millions worth of cocaine into the UK hidden in plastic bananas .
article_snippet: Prosecutor Ken Millett said: 'On 10 July last year following a lengthy, proactive investigation by officers from the Specialist Crime directorate at New Scotland Yard, officer found 100kg of high-grade cocaine at a banana warehouse ripening plant just off the A2 in Kent. '
article_snippet: Those bananas had been found in a pallet of a consignment of genuine bananas that had been sent on or about 21 June from Colombia.'
article_snippet: More than 30 pallets of bananas were delivered to an industrial estate in Hartlip, near Sittingbourne, where father-of-one Jaramillo worked and received the drugs delivery. '
article_snippet: The bananas were wrapped in a particular cling film and had been smeared with some kind of oil or grease or chemical to prevent detection by sniffer dogs,' said Mr Millett. '
article_snippet: Fake fruit: The three men worked with Colombian drug lords to bring in cocaine worth £25million in a consignment of bananas, hiding the drugs among the real fruit.
article_snippet: More than 30 pallets of bananas were delivered to an industrial estate in Hartlip, near Sittingbourne, where father-of-one Jaramillo worked and received the drugs delivery .
article_snippet: The gang also claimed The gang sent messages about the bananas because The gang worried The gang would get in trouble with the authorities if the bananas rotted and attracted 'plagues'.
highlights_snippet: Men jailed after smuggling more than 230lbs of cocaine into the UK .
  Hid £25million worth of cocaine in plastic bananas among real fruit .
  