On December 19, 2016, during a routine inspection of a foreign shipping container, customs officials in Melbourne noticed a suspicious blip on their x-ray scanner.  The container had arrived from South Africa carrying industrial mining equipment and an “anomaly” inside one of the machines — an iron-ore extractor — led to a physical inspection. Concealed within the extractor, inside a seven-inch-thick metal crate lined with charcoal, were 358 one-kilogram packages of cocaine and m