MADRID: A young Brazilian mum has been arrested amid claims she tried to smuggle a £50,000 cocaine haul into Spain by hiding it among her hair extensions and wig here the other day.
Police said the Brazilian woman had nine packets containing a whopping 880 grams of the Class A drug interwoven with her own hair and a wig.
She was stopped by members of the National Police shortly after she arrived at Madrid Barajas Adolfo Suárez Airport on a flight from Sao Paulo in Brazil here the other day.
Off her head: Police had to cut the packets of cocaine out of the woman’s hair
According to officers, they searched her because was acting in a suspicious manner.
They also believe she may have been using her three-year-old daughter as a decoy.
The drugs were hacked out of the woman’s hair, they said.
Police said it was common for women from Portugal to attempt to smuggle contraband, usually drugs, in fake hair, such as extensions or wigs.
During 2014, drug squad officers at the busy airport in the Spanish capital arrested nearly 300 people for trying to smuggle in a total of 900 kilos of cocaine.
Expensive haul: The nine packets of cocaine were valued at £50,000
A police spokesman said: “Drug traffickers are using all sorts of imaginative measures and objects to disguise drugs.