Smugglers Molded Cocaine Into Manolo Blahnik to Transport Through Spain

(HuffPost) We've heard women discuss belonging to them love for shoes as each addiction. Still drug dealers inside Spain took certain steep heel-as-drug metaphor quite literally when they smuggled cocaine starting at Colombia for Spain within certain structure made from fake Manolo Blahniks.

Certain drug smuggling endeavor was sprint skyward by one Colombian guy along with his wife, whom molded paste-like cocaine inward certain shape made from a shoe plus slapped itself with a label "Manolo Blahnik."

When certain "shoes" might arrive toward Spain, certain New York Post writes, several males ought to remain in charge of returning each paste in order to for it original white powder type and distributing any drugs.

Each coked-up heel had single street value belonging to 50,000 euros a pair, alternatively approximately $69,000, reports each Telegraph.

Basque news site EITB.com reports whatever anti-narcotics squads among each Spanish municipality from Bilbao arrested six individuals as well as seized 4 kilos from cocaine inside the culmination of one year-long effort to catch each shoe-savvy dealers that was dubbed, unsurprisingly, Operation Manolos.

Although ourselves do never condone drug trafficking, we can't assist still exist impressed by each dealers' cleverness. Our group merely contain unit lingering question: were yonder anything pairs made from Carrie Bradshaw's "Something Blue" Satin pumps among certain bunch?