Monday, 10 April 2017

Pics: Bizarre smuggling attempts that went wrong


A woman was arrested for attempting to smuggle crystal meth in Ferrero Rocher wrappers. The 46-year woman was arrested at Sydney Airport, Australia, after Australian Border Force officers discovered 500 grams of the drug.

Spanish police seized 200 kilos of cocaine found inside hollowed-out pineapples that arrived by ship from Central America, the interior ministry said. The drug-stuffed fruit was found among 10 shipping containers filled with pineapples that arrived in the southern port of Algeciras, one of Europe's largest ports, the ministry said in a statement.




This poor yellow-crested cockatoo is one of 24 birds that were inserted in empty water bottles by smugglers in Indonesia


Police in the Mexican border city of Tijuana said a small unmanned aerial vehicle overloaded with methamphetamine had crashed into a supermarket car park

Canadian Ritchie Tabatha Leah was detained at Bogota airport in September 2013 as she pretended to be pregnant but was captured while attempting to board a flight to her country, carrying 2kg of cocaine hidden under a latex belly.

Spanish Police cut a cast made of cocaine that was worn by a 66-year-old Chilean man who tried to smuggle the drugs into Barcelona airport in 2009


German Customs confiscated 45 Kg of heroin woven into a carpet rug in Leipzig in January, 2014


Some spicy guacamole could have been made from this avocado filled with cocaine


Inside a can of Stella Artois


In 2004 Gregory Graham and Kaye Michele Chapman were convicted for attempting to smuggle cocaine from Colombia into Britain through Stansted Airport by surgically implanting it into two labrador dogs. Rex, right, one of the dogs used to import 1.3kg of cocaine.


In 1997 a man tried to smuggle cocaine in champagne bottles


Colombian soldiers stand on top of a seized submarine built by drug smugglers in Timbiqui, Colombia in February 2011. Colombian authorities said the submersible craft was to be used to transport 8 tons of cocaine illegally into Mexico.


An x-ray showing swallowed packets inside a person's body, confiscated by the UK Border Agency


This man was detailed by Afghan customs with approximately 15.2lbs (7kg) of heroin taped to his body as he tried to leave the country at Kabul Airport, Afghanistan in June 2007

3 comments:

  1. The birds got me

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  2. as if the underground tunnels are not enough...submarine!!!

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  3. useless folks using animals....shio

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