Man found with $48,000 worth of cocaine under toupee
A Colombian man was detained at Barcelona’s international airport after half a kilo of cocaine was found hidden under his over-sized toupee, Spanish police said on Tuesday.
Arriving on a flight from Bogota, the man attracted police attention as he looked nervous and had a disproportionately large hairpiece under his hat.
They found a package stuck to his head with about AUD$48,000 (€30,000) worth of cocaine inside.
“There is no limit to the inventiveness of drug traffickers trying to mock controls,” said the police statement.
The statement enclosed a photo of a middle-aged man – apparently still wearing the toupee though with his eyes blocked in the image – but gave no more details of his identity.
Over 100 kilos of cocaine were seized by Spanish police at the Barcelona-El Prat airport in 2018.
The Colombian was detained at the end of June.
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