MADRID: Spanish drug dealers attempted to smuggle cocaine into France by hiding it inside a sarnie. Police made the bizarre find when they stopped three people on their way to France.
The married couple and another man had what looked like two ordinary sausage sandwiches in a coolbox.
However, when officers looked closer, they found they contained 150 grams of cocaine, worth around £6,500.
It later emerged the trio were part of a much bigger organised crime gang involved in smuggling and a revenge shooting.
Although police were already investigating the network, the trio, including the ring-leader, was only stopped after the driver went down a one-way street the wrong way.
They were arrested in Zaragoza, Spain, en route to France.
A police spokesman said their investigations had started last September after a man with a gunshot wound was taken to hospital.
They discovered he had been shot during an argument between drug traffickers.
Later, his attacker was arrested and nearly two kilogrammes of cocaine was found on a boat.
