We've
know how shoes have been described as an addiction for women. But drug dealers
in Spain took the high heel-as-drug metaphor quite literally when they smuggled
cocaine from Colombia to Spain in the form of fake Manolo Blahniks.
The
drug smuggling endeavour was run up by a Colombian man and his wife, who molded
paste-like cocaine into the shape of a shoe and slapped it with the label
"Manolo Blahnik." When the "shoes" would arrive to Spain,
the New York Post writes, several men would be in charge of
returning the paste to its original white powder form and distributing the
drugs.
Each
coked-up heel had a street value of 50,000 euros a pair, or about $69,000,
reports the Telegraph. Basque
news site EITB.com reports that anti-narcotics squads in the Spanish city of
Bilbao arrested six individuals and seized 4 kilos of cocaine in
the culmination of a year-long effort to catch the shoe-savvy dealers that was
dubbed, unsurprisingly, Operation Manolos.
Via Huffington Post
they are getting better with these schemes
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OK, that's just nuts--what a funny story!
ReplyDeletePretty sneaky...glad they were caught. And I thought Manolos were overpriced...these shoes had the biggest ever price tag.
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