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Portuguese police detain man after finding cocaine inside fake arse

Police said a “considerable amount of cocaine” was found inside the concealed pouches.

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POLICE IN PORTUGAL have detained a man at Lisbon’s international airport, accused of carrying a kilo of cocaine inside a fake arse.

The national anti-narcotics trafficking unit of the Policia Judiciaria described finding the “considerable amount of cocaine” within the concealed pouches inside the man’s shorts.

They also arrested a second individual who was set to be the final recipient of the product at the train station in the city.

Police said: “If it came to illicit distribution channels, the cocaine in question, which was seized, would be sufficient for the composition of at least five thousand individual doses.”

The suspects are aged 32 and 40. The men are now facing charges of drug trafficking.

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No estimate was given as to the drug’s street value or how police discovered the case.

In January, police in Portugal and Spain seized cocaine that was found hidden within fresh pineapples, the BBC reported.

Read: Man (40s) arrested after heroin, cocaine and cash seized in Dublin

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    Jul 26th 2015, 11:47 AM

    Ireland’s fastest growing demographic at work..

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    Jul 26th 2015, 11:34 AM

    Maybe just a “dope” took the wrong turn.

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    Jul 26th 2015, 11:52 AM

    Must have been out of their heads on drugs . A bit like the cyclists taking part

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    What a joke of a sport all up to their eyeballs in stuff.

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    11am (9am GMT) ??

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    9am GMT is 10am Irish Summer Time which is 11am in Paris

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    I thought that this was a major security incident. It seems trivial and an indication of how terrorism can make ordinary events look sinister and threatening.

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    Jul 26th 2015, 2:27 PM

    Probably that idiot Kimmage…..!

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