UK police find 900 pounds of cocaine worth $44 million in load of onion rings

British authorities busted a truck driver with more than 900 pounds of cocaine hidden in a shipment of frozen onion rings this week, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency announced. 

Border Force officers stopped the shipment on Thursday in the UK inbound zone of Coquelles, France. The 921-pound load has a street value of more than $44 million. 

The cocaine shipment was hidden in a shipment of frozen onion rings. 

Piotr Perzenowski, a 30-year-old man from Poland, is facing a charge of smuggling class A drugs. 

“This was a really significant amount of drugs taken out of circulation,” National Crime Agency Branch Commander Mark Howes said in a statement. 

“The seizure will deprive the organized crime group responsible for them of profit which would have fueled more offending.”

The $44 million bust comes on the heels of other recent blows to drug trafficking rings in Europe.