Man Caught Attempting To Smuggle Cocaine Inside Of Wig

Talk about a coke head.

Footage captured by Colombian authorities shows a drug smuggler attempting to smuggle $10,000 worth of cocaine under a wig.

In the footage, authorities are seen cutting through a wig that was glued to a smuggler’s scalp.

After removing the wig, authorities discovered “more than 400 doses of cocaine.”

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— TMZ (@TMZ) February 25, 2025

Here’s what the New York Post reported:

Hair-raising footage captured Colombian cops exposing a drug smuggler who had hidden $10,000 worth of cocaine under a wig glued to his head.

The 40-year-old suspect from Pereira attempted to board a flight from Cartagena to Amsterdam in the Netherlands on Thursday when he was stopped by anti-narcotics police, according to a video shared on X by the Colombian National Police.

The footage showed an officer cutting through what appeared to be the man’s hair and scalp with a pair of scissors, eventually peeling back the wig and revealing a stockpile of drugs.

The smuggler had “more than 400 doses of cocaine,” valued at over $10,000, inside 19 capsules that were “camouflaged in a wig,” police said in a press release.

“These capsules contained a substance that, after being subjected to the Homologated Preliminary Identification Test (PIPH), tested positive for cocaine,” according to the release.

The video later shows police officers displaying the suspect, who has not been named, behind a table with a sign reading “cocaina,” Spanish for cocaine.

Coke head: Man caught trying to smuggle cocaine onto plane under his wig https://t.co/36VExX7BVe pic.twitter.com/BBPaUnT688

— New York Post (@nypost) February 25, 2025

Per People:

A man has been arrested after allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine worth $10,000 onto a flight under his wig, police say.

The 40-year-old suspect, from Pereira, was attempting to board a flight from Cartagena to Amsterdam when he was stopped at security by Anti-Narcotics Police, per a video shared on X by the Colombian National Police.

Police said that the amount of cocaine the man had allegedly been trying to smuggle through the airport had been valued at more than 10,000 euros (just under $10,500), per a Monday, Feb. 24 news release.

Officers confirmed the cocaine capsules had been “camouflaged in a wig,” sharing footage of the moment the wig was cut open to reveal the drugs before officers tested it.