Drug Smuggling Tricks Wigs Sweets and Fake Melons Used at Borders

The UK faces a huge illegal drug problem. The drug trade is worth billions of pounds each year. Authorities seized a record amount of drugs last year. Smugglers risk prison if they get caught. They always find new ways to sneak drugs in.

A man hid cocaine under his wig; it was worth thousands of pounds. Others hid cocaine in banana shipments, transporting the goods from Colombia to the UK. Police swapped the drugs for real bananas, arresting the smugglers at a fake warehouse.

Smugglers also hid meth in fake watermelons. They painted plastic-wrapped drugs to look real. US customs found the haul in a truck traveling from Mexico. Other smugglers hide drugs in sweets.

Some sweets contained dangerous levels of meth. A charity accidentally gave the sweets to homeless people, resulting in three people being hospitalized. Police think it was a failed smuggling attempt.

Police use X-rays and dogs to find drugs. They also use intelligence information. The government wants to protect the public from drugs, aiming to catch smugglers and enforce the law.