Check out our official website: http://us.tomonews.net/\nCheck out our Android app: http://goo.gl/PtT6VD\nCheck out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f\n\n----------------------------------------\u00ad----------------------------------------\u00ad----------------\n\nA Guatemalan man was detained earlier this month at a New York area airport after authorities found three pounds of cocaine hidden in cookies in his baggage.\n\nMauricio Isidro Rivera Hernandez arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport from Guatemala on June 5. After exiting the plane he was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and taken to a private room.\n\nOfficers found cookies in his three check-in bags. Inside the cookies were 118 small oval-shaped pellets of cocaine.\n\nU.S. Customs representative Anthony Bucci told the New Jersey Star-Ledger that the pellets contained about 3 pounds of cocaine and had an estimated street value of $52