Man caught smuggling cocaine on a plane under his wig
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He’s coke head alright.

Hair-raising footage captured Colombian cops exposing a drug smuggler who had hidden $10,000 worth of cocaine under a wig glued to his head.

The Colombian National Police shared a video showing anti-narcotics police stopping a 40-year-old suspect from Pereira who was trying to board a flight from Cartagena to Amsterdam in the Netherlands on Thursday.

The footage showed an officer cutting through what appeared to be the man’s hair and scalp with a pair of scissors, eventually peeling back the wig and revealing a stockpile of drugs.

The smuggler had “more than 400 doses of cocaine,” valued at over $10,000, inside 19 capsules that were “camouflaged in a wig,” police said in a press release.

“These capsules contained a substance that, after being subjected to the Homologated Preliminary Identification Test (PIPH), tested positive for cocaine,” according to the release.

The video later shows police officers displaying the suspect, who has not been named, behind a table with a sign reading “cocaina,” Spanish for cocaine.

Police are investigating whether the suspect, who has a history of drug trafficking, was linked to a larger criminal organization.

The suspect has now been “placed at the disposal of the Attorney General’s Office for the crime of trafficking, manufacturing and carrying narcotic substances,” police said.

More than 450 people have been arrested for drug trafficking this year, according to the commander of the Metropolitan Police of Cartagena, Brig. Gen. Gelver Yecid Peña Araque. Authorities have seized more than 115 kilos of hallucinogens, including marijuana, coca base and cocaine, police said in the release.

“We are dealing decisive blows against these criminal structures that not only fight over local drug trafficking but are also the generators of different violent acts and other types of crimes that disrupt peace and coexistence,” the general said.

“We continue to insist on the importance of the community being our main ally, providing timely information that helps us identify and locate criminals.”

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