 Once reassembled, police shipped the grinder by truck to Kelowna. After hauling it to a ranch near Merritt, the trio was recorded by police trying to break open the fruit grinder to recover the cocaine on Oct. 1, 2010. | The three men were all found guilty in 2014. Chavez was sentenced to 13 years in prison, but with credit for time served, will serve just over half that time. The scheme involved packing the almost-pure cocaine inside a 2,400-kg fruit grinder shipped from Argentina to a storage facility in Kelowna. Border officers in Vancouver found the contraband. They alerted RCMP investigators, who dismantled the machine, replaced most of the coke with placebo and planted a listening device. |  |