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Cops received a tip that a shipment of drugs would be coming in from Seattle, and found 290 pounds of marijuana and mushrooms in a shipping container.

Seattle sent a slew of drugs our way — more than 290 pounds of marijuana and mushrooms.

Cops seized a shipping container on the Brooklyn waterfront loaded with wacky weed and other drugs, law enforcement sources said Saturday.

Cops found the container at a Maspeth Ave. dock in East Williamsburg near the Newtown Creek on Wednesday after Homeland Security tipped them off that a cargo container full of drugs was coming to Brooklyn from Seattle.

On Thursday evening, cops watched as two men and a woman pulled up in a U-Haul truck and a Hyundai.

They unloaded the contents of the container into the U-Haul truck and drove off, law enforcement sources said.

Police trailed the U-Haul to Morgan Ave., where it and...

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