Couple Find Cocaine Hidden in Hotel Chair
GRAHAM, N.C. - For a brief time, the Best Western Inn here had a chair worth about $50,000. The chair in room 204 wasn't an antique. Instead, an Ohio couple who stayed in the room Saturday found 4.4 pounds of cocaine in the chair, police said.
Graham police Capt. Jeff Prichard said someone cut a slit in the chair's seat and tucked two packages of cocaine inside.
A truck driver from Ohio and his wife rented a room there Saturday and discovered the cocaine about 6 p.m., Officer Robert Lovette said in a police report.
The truck driver told Lovette that a package fell out when he moved the chair. The couple picked up the package, thought it might be narcotics and called 911.
Graham Officer R. Parks tested its contents and confirmed that it was cocaine.
As officers searched the room, the truck driver tipped the chair and police found a second package of cocaine. Each package contained about a kilo of powder cocaine.
The couple are not suspects.
Police are looking for others who stayed in the room recently. "I wouldn't call them suspects, but they are someone we would like to speak with," Prichard said.
