A combination photo shows a Colombian man who was arrested at Barcelona airport after police found half a kilo of cocaine hidden under his wig. — AFP photo
MADRID: A Colombian man was detained at Barcelona’s international airport after half a kilo of cocaine was found hidden under an over-sized toupee, Spanish police said 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 30,000 euros (US$34,000) of cocaine.
“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. — Reuters