Get ready for some Breaking Bad levels of creativity.

Dealers recently saw a gap in the market and started labelling their drugs ‘vegan’ and ‘ethically sourced’.

This clearly worked, because the cocaine superhighway in the US is so busy that smugglers are using planes once, and then destroying them.

In Britain, smugglers even started using rats to move the merchandise, and a recent bust in Spain has revealed what might just be the most creative method yet.

CNN reports that police in Spain have arrested 12 members of a crime ring which smuggled cocaine from Colombia.

The ring shipped in plastic pellets impregnated with cocaine: a method that meant the drug was completely undetectable during standard customs checks, police explained.

…The gang, led by grandparents and parents of the same family, was capable of producing more than 600 kilograms of cocaine each month, the national police force said in a statement.

Keeping it in the family. Nice.

The police also arrested three specialists in extracting the cocaine from the plastic, who had flown in from Colombia and worked for 10 days straight without leaving the labs.

The operation was the result of an investigation which started in late 2018 and constituted “the biggest blow” against cocaine handling and extraction in Spain, the force said.

The alleged leader of the ring identified as a man of Colombian origin living in a luxury villa outside Madrid.

Two of the labs were in Madrid, and the third was in Toledo. One of the labs alone was capable of producing 500 kilograms of cocaine a month, whilst the other two produced smaller amounts.

Authorities seized 30 kilograms of cocaine paste, one kilogram of cocaine hydrochloride, 600 kilograms of plastic pellets infused with cocaine and 3,000 liters of chemical products.

You know what they say…

The family that smuggles drugs together, gets incarcerated together.

It’s not personal. It’s just business.

[source:cnn]