It’s probably the last thing on your mind to think that there would be drugs stored
in a children’s lollipop but in 2012, that actually happened. Smugglers had stashed around
£200,000 or roughly $310,000 worth of cocaine inside lollipops which were found in a suitcase.
The seizure weighed around four kilos, half of which is believed to have been high-purity
cocaine. The lollipops were part of a haul seized by UK Border Force Officers at Accra
airport in Ghana. It’s a good thing no-one sucked on their lollipops. Wait, that sounded
really wrong.
You may be thinking a stuffed toy could be a plausible place to store drugs but this
stuffed lion had something rather ironic about it. In 2012, a 22-year-old New York man was
arrested after his stuffed lion was found to contain marijuana, cocaine and LSD. What
was ironic about the stuffed lion was the fact that it was wearing an anti-drugs t-shirt.
Talk about making the situation obvious. The t-shirt read: D.A.R.E which stands for Drug
Abuse Resistance Education, which is a program that aims to educate young people about staying
away from drugs, gangs, and violence. The perpetrator was arrested at a bus station
near the Canadian border.
The pleasant image of a family Sunday roast will now be ruined by this story as Chilean
Police ceased a roast chicken stuffed with marijuana in June 2016. I mean, who would
think of stuffing drugs into a bloody chicken. That’s just “fowl.” It certainly is
an original idea; I’ll give them that! In a prison in Casablanca, an inmate received
this drugged up roast chicken during visiting hours. The guards took notice of this gift,
as they should, because a roasted chicken is a bit of an odd thing to give to a prisoner,
and inspected the roast chicken to only find that marijuana was stuffed inside. Maybe some
people prefer marijuana instead of stuffing in their roast chicken. I’m not going to
judge. The culprits responsible for this were subsequently detained. And probably also stuffed
inside something, maybe not a chicken but more likely a prison.
A 43-year-old man from Costa Rica landed in Madrid when all of a sudden, police officers
pulled him to one side after noticing a rather large bulge in his pants between his legs.
At this stage, you might be thinking that would be pretty impressive if a police officer
mistook your bulge for something far far worse, however, for this adventurous (let’s just
say) guy, the bulge was in fact carrying something illegal. After further inspection, police
found almost half a kilo of cocaine. The man was subsequently taken into custody and was
faced with drug smuggling charges.
Probably the one you’ve all been waiting for, let’s be honest… In 2014, a Venezuelan
woman was found carrying 1.7kg of cocaine in her breast implants after arriving at Madrid
Airport from a flight from Columbia. During a routine check of passengers from Bogotá,
the gestures and behaviour of the Venezuelan woman raised the suspicions of the narcotics
agents. Officials at Madrid Airport then pulled over the suspicious lady and conducted a baggage
search. After the search revealed nothing, female officers then conducted a body search
and discovered "certain irregularities and deformations in both breasts". It was at this
moment the lady then started to act nervously and confessed to carrying the drugs in her
breast implants. She was taken to hospital where her implants were removed and found
to contain the drugs.