COCAINE with a street value of more than $412,000 has been found inside fresh pineapples by Spanish police.
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| The drug-stuffed fruit was found at the sprawling Mercamadrid market in southern Madrid among a shipment of pineapples |
SPANISH police collared a group of drug smugglers who stuffed cocaine into dozens of hollowed-out pineapples to try and avoid detection, according to a report.
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| A dismantled cocaine-stuffed pineapple, seized by Spanish police in Madrid. |
Each pineapple was “perfectly hollowed out and stuffed with compact cylinders” containing the drug and was coated with wax or yellow paraffin to conceal the “odours of the chemical products which the drug contains and avoid its detection,” police said in a statement,
Seven suspects were arrested — three in Madrid and four in Barcelona — in connection with the smuggling ring.
Spain is the main entry point to Europe for cocaine from South America, mostly from Colombia, and smugglers often turn to creative means to get drugs past customs officials.
In recent years, authorities have located cocaine inside breast implants, a wig, a wheelchair cushion, a plaster cast encasing a man’s broken leg as well as inside a 42-piece crockery set.
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