“Cocaine Bear” producers might need a sequel … ‘trigger a person was allegedly caught utilizing one other creature to smuggle blow — and underwater sequences are all the fad.

Zacharie Scott was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport Worldwide Airport in NYC Friday for allegedly trying to smuggle coke inside luggage of frozen jumbo shrimp.

The 22-year-old — who lives in Guyana however holds U.S. citizenship — allegedly hid bricks of the drug inside shrimp luggage, basically protecting up the substance … making for a really completely different sort of cocktail get together.

Feds mentioned they did a area check … revealing traces of cocaine — and all collectively, the medicine allegedly weighed greater than 40 kilos! Authorities say they talked to Scott … and he confessed to agreeing to smuggle the medicine for money.

Scott appeared in Brooklyn Federal Courtroom Tuesday to face expenses introduced by Breon Peace, the U.S. Lawyer for the Japanese District of New York who’s spearheading the case — and Scott’s being detained till his bail listening to on Tuesday … if convicted, he might withstand 20 years in jail.

We have reached out to Scott’s lawyer for remark … thus far, no phrase again.

Fortunately none of those shrimp have been alive when the coke was put in … or the U.S. Coast Guard might need a JUMBO downside on their arms.