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Authorities at Dublin Airport seized approximately 5 kilograms of cocaine, worth an estimated 500,000 euros, concealed inside bags of lollipops found in a passenger's luggage arriving from Brazil.
A man in his 60s has been arrested and charged.
That the method is almost disarmingly simple is the point: the case for reading this as calculated craft, rather than improvisation, rests entirely on whether the packaging was chosen to exploit a specific gap or just to look benign.
The mechanism repays attention. Lollipop bags pass visual inspection as confectionery. They carry weight and density consistent with food product.
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