- A man on a flight from Colombia attracted attention in Spain because of his nervousness and the large hairpiece he was wearing.
- Underneath an oversize toupee, Spanish police found a half-kilo of cocaine worth about $34,000.
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MADRID (Reuters) - A Colombian man was detained at Barcelona's international airport after a half-kilo of cocaine was found hidden under an oversize toupee, Spanish police said on Tuesday.
Arriving on a flight from Bogota, the man attracted police attention as he looked nervous and had a disproportionately large hairpiece under his hat. They found a package stuck to his head with about 30,000 euros ($34,000) of cocaine.
"There is no limit to the inventiveness of drug traffickers trying to mock controls," said the police statement. The Colombian was detained at the end of June.
The statement enclosed a photo of a middle-aged man — apparently still wearing the toupee though with his eyes blocked in the image — but gave no more details of his identity.
Over 100 kilos of cocaine were seized by Spanish police at the Barcelona-El Prat airport in 2018.
(Reporting by Sarah Dagher; editing by Paul Day and Andrew Cawthorne)
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