As far as drug-smuggling plans go, this one in all likelihood ought to have been long past over with a fine-toothed comb.
A Colombian guy seeking to sneak more than a pound of cocaine into Spain was stuck with the package (poorly) hidden underneath his toupee, Spanish police legitimately told NPR.
The more deliver-on bag became taped to the top of a 65-year-old guy’s head, creating a completely bizarre lewk as he disembarked from a flight arriving in Barcelona from Bogota.
The National Police said it wasn’t always the Snooki-like bump that gave him away — he had tried to conceal it underneath a hat — but alternatively his lack of kickback.
The unidentified guy, who changed into wearing a blue-and-white collared shirt and matching blue vest, changed into behaving suspiciously as he made his way through El Prat airport the other month.
“His toupee becomes very curious, but the dealers there have a variety of expertise, and they pay attention to humans’ attitude,” the National Police told La Vanguardia. “His anxiousness turned into very great as he was about to pass the security checkpoint.”
It did not take long to discover the stash containing 503 grams of cocaine, which police anticipated could be well worth approximately 30,000 euros, more than $33,000 U.S.
The drug-in-a-rug tale is not over: The harried drug mule has been charged with “a crime towards public fitness” and is being held by way of the Judicial Authority, the national police said.
