Adebayor smuggles £3000 of marijuana

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Devious drug smugglers tried to conceal cannabis worth almost £3,000 in a painting of footballer Emmanuel Adebayor.

The wooden framed picture was seized by border officials as it passed through the international postal hub in Coventry from the footballer's native Togo.

Their suspicions may have been raised because the painting of the former Arsenal star was addressed to a home in Tottenham, the team's north London arch rival.

Details of the ambitious trafficking scam and several others were revealed by UK Border Agency today to highlight the cunning ploys of drug traffickers.

Officials intercepted stashes of drugs hidden in bottles of Baileys, woven baskets, packets of peanuts and even yams that had been opened and glued back together.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/01/06/emmanuel-adebayor-painting-used-to-smuggle-drugs-115875-22830230/#ixzz1AGpQh8Qz

[True_Blue 469]

They see him rollin' they hatin'

[St Abramovich 175]

Thats the kind of headline that the media puts on these stories, has almost nothing to do with Adebayor, just his picture.

[Rambo 1,729]

I find it funny that they would use a picture of Adebayor though.

[Drogba11CFC 108]

Devious drug smugglers tried to conceal cannabis worth almost £3,000 in a painting of footballer Emmanuel Adebayor.

The wooden framed picture was seized by border officials as it passed through the international postal hub in Coventry from the footballer's native Togo.

Their suspicions may have been raised because the painting of the former Arsenal star was addressed to a home in Tottenham, the team's north London arch rival.

Details of the ambitious trafficking scam and several others were revealed by UK Border Agency today to highlight the cunning ploys of drug traffickers.

Officials intercepted stashes of drugs hidden in bottles of Baileys, woven baskets, packets of peanuts and even yams that had been opened and glued back together.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.../#ixzz1AGpQh8Qz

Always one fatal flaw.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Thats the kind of headline that the media puts on these stories, has almost nothing to do with Adebayor, just his picture.

Yeah, that was kind of the point of it