People have come up with some pretty strange ways to smuggle things from place to place, and drugs are no exception. You'll be surprised to learn these bizarre but ingenious ways people have tried to smuggle illegal narcotics.
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#1 A Passenger's "Bulge"
The old joke, "Is that a bulge in your pants or are you just happy to see me?" has new meaning for a passenger in Spain. When the plane landed in Madrid, police arrested a passenger who had a very odd looking bulge in his pants. Police had already searched the man but found nothing until the package of almost half a kilo of cocaine became dislodged and his bulge began to grow. Upon further inspection, they found the bag full of drugs and arrested the 43-year-old man who was traveling from Costa Rica when he was stopped.
#2 Roasted Chicken
During visiting hours, at a Chilean prison in Casablanca, prisoners were presented with a special gift from one of the inmates family members. A homemade roasted chicken. However, the real "gift" was discovered during the inspection of the item when guards found over one half pound or cocaine and a baggie full of prescription drugs. The guards seized the smuggled drugs and the chicken as evidence and those responsible for delivering the dish were detained.
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#3 Breast Implants
During a check of passengers on a plane from Bogotá, the gestures, and behavior of a supposed tourist raised the suspicions of narcotics agents in Venezuela when they did she arrived on a flight at Madrid airport after arriving on a flight from Colombia. When a baggage search turned up clean the airport security was ready to let her leave when she fidgeted with her breasts. At that point, the security team did a full body scan and search and discovered irregularities and deformations in both breasts. That's when she broke down and confessed that she was carrying implants with 1.7kg cocaine inside. The woman was taken to a hospital where the implants were removed and found to contain 1.7kg (3.75lb) of the drug. She was arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison for her smuggling attempt.
#4 A Stuffed Lion Wearing A DARE Shirt
If you thought that irony was dead, think again. In 2014, a 22-year-old upstate New York man was arrested when he crossed from Canada into Plattsburgh New York by Greyhound bus. When customs did a random search of the bus and used drug sniffing dogs, they discovered a stuffed lion wearing a t-shirt that had the DARE logo on it. DARE stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, a program that aims to educate young people about staying away from drugs, gangs, and violence. Stuffed deep inside the cuddly lion was two grams of pot, about a half-gram of cocaine and LSD. The stuffed animal had been sewn back together but the police dogs caught the smuggle and alerted the customs officers.
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#5 Chocolate Frosting
It goes without saying that the US Customs has seen just about every attempt known to man to smuggle weapons, drugs, and other things such as exotic animals, into the country. However, they were shocked when a person arriving in Cincinnati from Greece had a strange container of chocolate frosting. Officials used an X-ray on a tub of chocolate icing after finding some irregularities and they discovered a sealed bag with 2.5 pounds of heroin inside the chocolate delight. In the same week, they also discovered other smuggling attempts that included methamphetamines hidden in ceramic statues, tortilla presses, and a toy Ferris wheel.
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#6 Trojan Horses
In 2014. Federal authorities stopped a lot of cocaine from entering the U.S. hidden in two wooden rocking horses. A Customs and Border Protection officer arrested a Mexican man as he tried to walk on foot through a border checkpoint in Calexico, California, carrying the two rocking horses inside a suitcase. A drug-sniffing dog alerted the officer to the possibility of drugs. When patrol officers scanned the contents they found the horses were hollowed out then filled with something. After drilling into the toys, they discovered ten packages of cocaine, weighing 29 pounds, with an estimated street value of $377,000. The man, Ulises Feliciano Sarabia-Barraza, said he had been paid $2 to smuggle the cocaine across the border. He was sentenced to 26 years in prison.
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#7 Kinder Surprise
When police in London noticed several people acting suspiciously and walking around Jono's Pub in Kingsbury, they decided to investigate further. Upon searching a nearby trash dumpster they discovered opened Tinder Egg toys. The toys normally hold a treat and a surprise toy, but why were so many in the garbage at a late-night brewery? When they went inside to further investigate, the police found close to one hundred of the Kinder Toys on patrons and throughout the pub. That's when they found that each Tinder egg was stuffed with cocaine, which was being distributed through the local drinking spot. Police say this isn't the first time class A felony Kinder eggs have been found on customers in the pub, which was subject to half a dozen police call-outs in the last year, for incidents including burglary, theft, and violent brawls. The club's license is under review and is not expected to be renewed, and the owner and manager were arrested along with 14 patrons.
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#8 Prosthetic Leg
When he assaulted his girlfriend and got arrested, a 40-year-old upstate New York man was caught smuggling prescription drugs into the jail inside of his prosthetic leg. Officials say corrections officers at the Warren County Jail found Suboxone hidden inside a hollow in Terrance Seymour's prosthesis during a search. Sheriff Bud York said: "He can wear [the prosthetic leg] in here, but we have the right to check it." Aside from the assault charges, Seymour, who lost a leg in a childhood accident, was charged with promoting prison contraband. He plead guilty and was sentenced to 2 years in prison.
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#9 Children's Lollipops
It looks like a yummy child's treat, but this lollipop contains something more than sugar and artificial flavorings. The candy was part of a haul seized by UK Border Force (UKBF) officers bound for the Accra airport in Ghana in 2012. Smugglers had stashed around $310,000 worth of potentially lethal cocaine inside of several boxes of lollipops. The Border Force discovered the boxes stuffed inside of an oversized suitcase which was randomly searched at the airport. The Class A drug was then found when the lollipops were cut open. The seizure weighed around four kilos, half of which is believed to have been high-purity cocaine.
