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    Drug dealers busted smuggling Manolo Blahniks made out of cocaine

    Drug smugglers disguised cocaine as Manolo Blahnik heels. Photo courtesy of Neiman MarcusDrug smugglers disguised cocaine as Manolo Blahnik heels. Photo courtesy of Neiman MarcusA ring of Colombian drug smugglers were busted for shipping fake Manolo Blahniks made out of cocaine. Yes, it took us a moment to process that too. Basically they mixed the drug with a liquid until it turned into a paste. Then they molded it into the shape of a high heel, painted them to look like real Manolos, and shipped them off to Barcelona. Once the shoes reached their destination they were broken down into their original powder form and given to dealers.

    According to the New York Post, this particular cartel has been running their scam for two years, and six members were finally caught by Spanish police in Barcelona with nine pairs of cocaine "Manolos" totaling $630,000. If you thought designer heels were expensive, these drug-laced stilettos were on another level. Instead of $755 a pair (which is the price of the jeweled Satin d'Orsay Manolo Blahniks above), the cocaine shoes were valued $70,000 a pair.

    Two of the smugglers tried to escape but eventually were arrested after a high-speed car chase, along with the leaders of the trafficking scheme: a 34-year-old man and his 24-year-old wife. The Colombian couple lived in Spain and were overseeing the entire operation. Apparently many smugglers have used the technique in the past to disguise drugs as sculptures, a plaster cast on a man's broken leg, and a 42-piece tea set. As much as we're glad these people will be prosecuted for moving massive amounts of illegal substances, we have to give the couple a little credit for their creative Manolo Blahnik scheme. We have a feeling the wife came up with the idea after watching too much "Sex and the City."

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    23 comments

    • PIPPI  •  6 months ago
      Gee wiz, I guess every crook has an idea, but if you roll the dice, you pay the price.
    • Calvin  •  6 months ago
      she moved as if she were walking on a cloud! lmao
    • Maimai  •  6 months ago
      chech the hand bags too!!!! just saying.
    • Vic  •  6 months ago
      Oh my goodness! What a waste of ingenuity.
      On a different note, that exact shoe is my favorite!
    • cass  •  6 months ago
      I seriously don't understand why drug lords don't use all of the creativity they put in inventing ways to ship drugs to other countries into something good for their country.
      Use said ways to invent other means to plant food, craft items, build houses.
      Stop using them to sell something as useless as coke, meth and heroin.
      • AndrewB 6 months ago
        Cocaine is a wonderful drug, if they legalized it the drug cartels would be broke
      • A Yahoo! User 5 months ago
        You really don't understand why? It's pretty simple. Their money comes from producing and selling drugs. There is not that kind of money in "craft items".
    • GiGi  •  6 months ago
      I wonder if anyone put their foot in it.
    • Joyce  •  6 months ago
      ah ! finally they have voting on here for comments
    • Mi Mi  •  6 months ago
      Yes I agree that was genius!
    • katie  •  6 months ago
      ☺☻☺☻ LMAO!!! Thats bad #$%$.. \\m// (o-o)\\m//
    • Minty Me  •  6 months ago
      I posted a comment yesterday and now this says "There are no comments yet".
    • Juan  •  6 months ago
      This was one my favorite Mobb ralated stories back in the 90s This might not be a real news article. hahahah
    • Szymon  •  6 months ago
      #$%$ Prices are gonna be going up again
    • D C  •  6 months ago
      Just because those cute little bear-shaped bottles at the grocery store say "honey" on them does not necessarily mean that they actually contain honey. A comprehensive investigation conducted by Food Safety News (FSN) has found that the vast majority of so-called honey products sold at grocery stores, big box stores, drug stores, and restaurants do not contain any pollen, which means they are not real honey.

      For the investigation, Vaughn Bryant, one of the nation's leading melissopalynologists, or experts in identifying pollen in honey, and director of the Palynology Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University, evaluated more than 60 products labeled as "honey" that had been purchased by FSN from ten states and the District of Columbia.

      Bryant found that 76 percent of "honey" samples purchased from major grocery store chains like Kroger and Safeway, and 77 percent of samples purchased from big box chains like Sam's Club and Wal-Mart, did not contain any pollen. Even worse were "honey" samples taken from drug stores like Walgreens and CVS, and fast food restaurants like McDonald's and KFC, 100 percent of which were found to contain not a trace of pollen.

      Assuming that there is any real honey at all in the phony honey products tested by FSN, the removal of pollen and other delicate materials via ultra-filtering renders them medicinally dead. Raw honey is a health-promoting food that can help alleviate stomach problems, anemia, allergies, and other health conditions. Ultra-filtered honey is nothing more than a health-destroying processed sugar in the same vein as white table sugar or high fructose corn syrup.
    • Bronson  •  6 months ago
      i will take 2 pairs of those n/m bout the size
    • Claudette Colbert  •  6 months ago
      The solution to stop the smuggling of manufactured cocaine is to use it in it's natural form, as the Indians do and did, and allow the fair trade for the farmers who grow the coca leaves to exist. They are God given plants that provide energy in their natural form. I believe they should be sold by the leaf, since that's all one needs to chew to gain the natural energy the coca leaf provides. Then criminals and governments can stop their wars and wastes of money and moneys going to criminal sources, and allow the world's economy to be that much better in a positive way. The coca leaf is much healthier and natural than those cancer causing caffine drinks that adults and children alike are guzzling down into their precious stomachs. The coca leaf gives a natural, sustaining energy without any negative side affects.
      It would improve the economy of both S. America, where the coca leaf is grown, as well as N. America, as the monies wasted on drug wars could more positively be implemented into society into, for instance, education, public health and safety, better public roads, etc.
    • AndrewB  •  6 months ago
      Mmmmm yummy cocaine, legalize, best weight loss drug ever
    • Ian  •  6 months ago
      very interesting people do the weirdest things now a days i never heard a shoe could be made from cocaine.
    • Karen  •  6 months ago
      wow this is amazing!
      hahahahaha
    • daleroy  •  6 months ago
      i need some shoe's
    • heartland canuck  •  6 months ago
      Ever see "Up in Smoke?"

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