Airport officers carry up man’s wig to search out shocking merchandise hidden inside

Airport officers had been left surprised after uncovering an sudden merchandise hid beneath a passenger’s toupee.

A video lately shared by Colombian police reveals airport officers slicing into an unidentified man’s wig to disclose cocaine.

The weird incident occurred when the 40-year-old traveler tried to board a flight from Cartagena to the Netherlands at Rafael Nunez Worldwide Airport. Nevertheless, he was apprehended earlier than he may depart.

The person aroused suspicion throughout a physique scan, which prompt he was hiding one thing in his hair. Upon chopping into his wig, officers found 19 packets of a substance hooked up to the underside of the wig.

The substance examined optimistic for cocaine and weighed roughly 220 grams (8 ounces), based on the Manchester Night Information.

Authorities valued the discover at over €10,000 (£8,290), resulting in the person’s arrest on fees of trafficking, manufacturing, and carrying narcotics, as reported by the BBC.

Newsweek said that the video was initially circulated by the Colombian newspaper La Opinion.

The person, reportedly from the town of Pereira, appeared resigned to his destiny and didn’t resist because the officer reduce into his hair, which gave the impression to be glued to his actual hair and a part of his shaved scalp.

Nevertheless, he coated his eyes along with his hand when the officer confirmed him what had been discovered beneath the fake locks. After using a chemical presumed to be cobalt thiocyanate, which turned blue as an indication of cocaine, the police promptly detained the person in query.

A proper assertion from the authorities detailed the arrest: “Throughout controls carried out by the Nationwide Police throughout boarding of nationwide and worldwide flights, items of the Anti-Narcotics Police caught a Colombian citizen red-handed who was attempting to board a flight to Amsterdam (Netherlands), with cocaine capsules camouflaged in a wig.”

They continued to spotlight the adept detection work concerned: “Due to the experience of the Nationwide Cops, via surveillance and passenger profiling, an individual from the town of Pereira (Colombia) was arrested and 19 cocaine capsules had been seized, camouflaged in a wig that the person was sporting (…)”.

Discovering medicine secreted in inventive manners at airports is turning into virtually routine. NewsNation had reported final month a few lady at Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport intercepted for concealing $238,000 value of cocaine in her wheelchair.

And beforehand in October, reviews surfaced of a UK citizen nabbed at a Colombian airport trying to smuggle two kilograms of cocaine underneath a sombrero, not on his head however stashed in his suitcase’s particular part.