At the Josep Tarradellas Airport in Barcelona, authorities apprehended a man when they noticed he clearly had a pound of cocaine under his toupee.
The toupee on the traveler “protruded more than necessary,” which set an investigation into motion that led to more than $33,000 worth of cocaine on top of the main’s head. This is according to a report from ABC 6.
The Spanish National Police made light of the joke on their Twitter page, posting a photo of him along with the caption “he’s going to drop his hair!”
Detenido en #Barcelona con droga en su peluquín…. ¡¡se le va a caer el pelo!! ??♂??♀https://t.co/IUjl9l63Du pic.twitter.com/wLxIBBB9Ff
— Policía Nacional (@policia) July 16, 2019
This bust went down just a week after a U.S. Coast Guardsmen jumped on top of a 40 foot submarine that had “39,000 pounds of cocaine and 933 pounds of marijuana worth a combined estimated $569 million,” on boarding according to a press release from the Coast Guard.
There was a report by the Daily Caller earlier this summer on “one of the largest drug seizures in United States history,” when $1 billion of cocaine was found by federal agents at a port in South Philadelphia.
MASSIVE COCAINE BUST! A ship with more than $1 billion in cocaine aboard — that was seized in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July — is owned by financial giant JPMorgan Chase. https://t.co/sIyLq3Fiu5
— FOX 11 Los Angeles (@FOXLA) July 11, 2019
There are dumb moves and then there is something like this. Maybe he thought security would just think he is having a really, really bad hair day. Well, it didn’t work out and now he is going to be doing some serious time.