Was a 40-year-old Korean national visiting Southern California hoping to obtain the biggest, longest-lasting erection in world history?
Or did he just want everybody he knew to be, well, excited for weeks?
Authorities briefly detained the unidentified tourist earlier this month at Los Angeles International Airport after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents found a whopping 63.3 pounds of erectile dysfunction medicine in his carry-on luggage.
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According to a Department of Homeland Security press release issued today, on-the-ball inspection agents found two, heat sealed pouches containing a white, powdery substance.
The
man claimed it was a “Chinese herb,” but lab testing determined that the
substance was tadalafil, which is commonly known as Cialis.
Officials claim the man did not have government permission to import the substance.
Jaime Ruiz, a CBP spokesperson, said the investigation is ongoing.
“We aren't releasing his name,” Ruiz told the Weekly.
“He is under investigation. He was not arrested when he arrived because
the substance was not a narcotic–cocaine, heroin, etc.”
R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.