BARCELONA – A not-so-stealthy smuggler was arrested Tuesday at Barcelona airport after $34,000 of cocaine was found underneath his toupee, according to Spain's National Police.
The police posted photos of the man on Twitter showing his enormous hairpiece side-by-side with a photo of the drugs.
Recommended Videos
“There is no limit to the inventiveness of drug traffickers trying to mock controls,” said the police in a statement, according to Reuters.
Detenido en #Barcelona con droga en su peluquín.... ¡¡se le va a caer el pelo!! 🧓👮♂👴🤷♀https://t.co/IUjl9l63Du pic.twitter.com/wLxIBBB9Ff
— Policía Nacional (@policia) July 16, 2019
A Spanish news site, La Vanguardia, reported that the man looked nervous, which caught the attention of airport security.
The 65-year-old Colombian national was taken into custody following the incident.
This incident comes just several weeks after a Brazilian Air Force officer traveling with President Jair Bolsonaro was arrested after being caught with 86 pounds of cocaine. Read more on that here.