Smugglers Molded Cocaine Into Manolo Blahnik to Transport Through Spain

(HuffPost) We've heard women discuss their love for shoes since each addiction. Yet drug dealers among Spain took the tall heel-as-drug metaphor quite literally when they smuggled cocaine starting at Colombia toward Spain amid each form out of fake Manolo Blahniks.

Each drug smuggling endeavor was jog aloft through one Colombian man along with his wife, which person molded paste-like cocaine inward a shape made from some shoe also slapped it with the label "Manolo Blahnik."

When certain "shoes" might arrive for Spain, each Novel York Post writes, several fellows could exist inside charge from returning the paste in order to of it original white powder type plus distributing certain drugs.

Per coked-up heel had some street value made from 50,000 euros per pair, alternatively regarding $69,000, reports each Telegraph.

Basque news site EITB.com reports which anti-narcotics squads in each Spanish town out of Bilbao arrested six individuals as well as seized 4 kilos belonging to cocaine in each culmination made from a year-long effort toward catch any shoe-savvy dealers that was dubbed, unsurprisingly, Operation Manolos.

Although we execute never condone drug trafficking, we can't aid however be impressed near to each dealers' cleverness. Our team simply hold unit lingering question: were yonder whatever pairs from Carrie Bradshaw's "Something Blue" Satin pumps within a bunch?