Cocaine traffickers in Lisbon may be in arrears after Portuguese police officers arrested a man who arrived at Lisbon’s main airport with a pair of gaudy swimming shorts — and nearly a kilo of cocaine inside two brown bags taped over his buttocks. The Judicial Police of Portugal announced the arrest in a statement posted to their website Tuesday. After getting off a flight from Belem, in northern Brazil, the man was caught with the cocaine hidden inside the bags. Police say they later managed to arrest a second man alleged to be waiting for the cocaine shipment. Possession of cocaine for personal use carries no criminal penalty in Portugal, a country that has largely decriminalized drug use.

Source: thestar February 13, 2018 22:54 UTC