Tuesday 6 July 2010

World Cup Diary - Day 25: World Cup Charlie

Police in Colombia have reportedly seized a replica of the World Cup made from eleven kilograms of pure cocaine. Officers found the gold-painted item during a routine check of a mail warehouse on Friday at Bogota airport, the Associated Press reports. The airport's anti-drug chief, Colonel José Piedrahita, said that the thirty six centimetre-high replica trophy had a street value of up to one million pounds. The trophy was packed with shirts of teams in the World Cup and its planned final destination was said to be Madrid, Spain.