BRAZIL: A mother attempted to smuggle cocaine worth 50 000 pounds in hair extensions i.e. by hiding it in her wig. The women who is said to be a Portuguese had nine packets containing a whopping 880 grams of the class A drug interwoven with her hair.
She was stopped by members of the National Police shortly after she arrived at Madrid Barajas Adolfo Suárez Airport on a flight from Sao Paulo in Brazil.
According to officers, they searched her because was acting in a suspicious manner.
They also believe she may have been using her three-year-old daughter as a decoy.
The drugs were hacked out of the woman’s hair, they said.
Police said it was common for women from Portugal to attempt to smuggle contraband, usually drugs, in fake hair, such as extensions or wigs.
During 2014, drug squad officers at the busy airport in the Spanish capital arrested nearly 300 people for trying to smuggle in a total of 900 kilos of cocaine.
A police spokesman said: “Drug traffickers are using all sorts of imaginative measures and objects to disguise drugs.
“Among the most unlikely are cans of peaches, snowboards, mobile phone chargers, an electric wheelchair and even inside breast implants!”
Earlier this week, we revealed how a drug-smuggling gang had been caught trying to smuggle cocaine into France by hiding it in sausage sandwiches.
