For one of the Mexican drug cartels, smuggling two pounds of cocaine and two pounds of methamphetamines inside a vacuum cleaner into the U. S. sucked – literally sucked – this Christmas season. You see a Green Bay, Wisconsin woman received a Christmas present from her two kids which was a vacuum cleaner than had been reconditioned in Juarez, Mexico.

Inside the bag of the vacuum cleaner bag was two pounds each of methamphetamines and cocaine with a street value of around $280,000. The smuggler apparently was sneaky enough to hide the drugs in the vacuum cleaner that was packaged in Juarez, according Brown County Drug Task Force detective Lt. David Poteat.

The vacuum cleaner was then shipped to a retail store in Wisconsin where the household item was purchased. The woman who found the drugs is not under suspicion and the retail store where the drugged vacuum cleaner was purchased is cooperating with authorities.

It has also not been released as to whether the culprit vacuum was a Hoover, Dyson or Dirt Devil. No doubt the drug filled vacuum will need to be detoxed and rehabbed before it is put into a good home or at least a halfway house to suck again.