A man has been caught with a suspiciously large bulge between his legs by Spanish Border Police as he tried to enter Spain. The scene has echoes of Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls' (played by Harry Shearer) foil-wrapped courgette incident at airport security. The hidden appendage turned out to be nearly half a kilo of cocaine. The man was searched as he flew into Madrid Airport from Costa Rica.
A homing pigeon caught by customs officials in Kuwait and found the be wearing a small backpack stuffed with illegal drugs.
Packages containing cocaine are seen inside reels of steel at a storage in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, after police seized more than two tons of the drug and for which four Mexican citizens were arrested on June 19, 2017.
Police firefighters try to open a reel of steel containing packages with cocaine at a storage in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, after police seized more than two tons of the drug and for which four Mexican citizens were arrested on June 19, 2017.
Two passengers were found with cocaine strapped to their legs according to Customs and Border Protection officers at JFK Airport, New York.
This discovery came when two men tried to bring more than 10 kilos (23lbs) of cocaine into the United States on April 19, officers said.
An AFP Forensics Officer investigates the concealment of methamphetamine in Melbourne. Australian police seized 903 kilograms of crystal meth that was smuggled from China inside boxes of hollow floorboards in the largest ever haul of the illicit drug in Australia
A fruit wholesaler working for Colombian drug cartels stored more than 100kg of high grade cocaine worth £24 million in these rather green fake bananas in his warehouse, a Southwark Crown Court has heard
Seized drugs on display in the glue packaging they were concealed in, at the Australian Federal Police (AFP) headquarters in Sydney, Australia. A major operation by the Joint Organized Crime Group has resulted in the seizure of liquid methamphetamine with a street value of over 1 billion Australian dollars.
One of four people being arrested in a Joint Organized Crime Group operation in Sydney, Australia. More than 720 liters of methamphetamine, with a street value of over 1 billion Australian dollar (0.71 billion US dollar), has been seized in the operation between the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the New South Wales (NSW) Police, Australian Border Force, the Australian Crime Commission and the NSW Crime Commission.
Seized drugs on display in the glue packaging they were concealed in, at the Australian Federal Police (AFP) headquarters in Sydney, Australia. A major operation by the Joint Organized Crime Group has resulted in the seizure of liquid methamphetamine with a street value of over 1 billion Australian dollars.
Customs officers on King Fahad Causeway arrested a man for trying to smuggle liquor under his traditional garment from Bahrain into Saudi Arabia. They frisked him and confiscated 14 bottles of whisky which were taped to his legs and waist.
Camberwell carrots: Drug smugglers were caught trying to hide more than a ton of marijuana disguised as carrots while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The drug runners tried driving through the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. They seized 2,817 packages of marijuana, wrapped into carrot shapes with orange plastic tape.
Polish police seized a record amount of cocaine worth around $27 million US that arrived via Belgium in a shipment of bananas from Colombia.
The haul of 178 kilograms of 90 per cent pure cocaine was seized near the capital city, hidden in a truckload of bananas. The police have arrested a 40-year-old Pole who drove the truck from Belgium, where the shipment arrived by sea. Police are investigating other people who were involved in the illegal shipment and also to determine whether the cocaine was destined for Poland or another country.
These pictures issued by the National Crime Agency (NCA) show some of the £1 million stash of cocaine which a 53 year old woman, from Ayr, attempted to smuggle into the UK hidden in toiletries. She has been jailed for seven years at the High Court in Glasgow. The woman was arrested at Glasgow Airport after arriving on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil, via Amsterdam.
A U.S. citizen arriving from Peru at Newark Liberty International Airport had an assortment of food in his luggage along with 10lbs of cocaine. Customs officials found packets of cocaine stuffed inside a nougat cake and various other food and drink items.
Fake wood pallets imported from Colombia and made of narcotic drug cocaine
Vanilla wafers filled with cocaine in Houston. A Guatemalan citizen arrived at George Bush Intercontinental Airport from Guatemala City with packages of vanilla wafers. But when customs officials opened them up, they said they found they were filled with cocaine instead of cream filling...
...He also had bags of chips that had small bundles of cocaine inside them. The 4 pounds of cocaine had a street value of more than $60,000 (about £39,000)
A block of cocaine concealed in a package of frozen meat in New York. A man arrived at Kennedy International Airport from Trinidad with three large packages of frozen meat in his suitcase. Customs officials took a closer look and said they found more than 7 pounds of powder cocaine inside.
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