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Too-tall toupee tips police to cocaine smuggler

Steven Adams
By Steven Adams
1 Min Read July 16, 2019 | 6 years Ago
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A man’s toupee looked just a little too big for his head as he landed in Barcelona.

Airport officers took the Colombian man aside for a second security screening and found half a kilo of cocaine on his head, reports Reuters.

Police said the 65-year-old man arrived on a plane from Bogota in late June looking nervous and had a disproportionately large hairpiece under his hat, Reuters reports.

The officers claimed a $34,000 package of cocaine was stuck to the man’s head.

“There is no limit to the inventiveness of drug traffickers trying to mock controls,” the police said in a statement reported by Reuters.

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Steven Adams is a Tribune-Review manager/photography. You can contact Steven at sadams@triblive.com.

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