Thanks to his seven goals in the World Cup, Norway’s Erling Haaland has become an international star. In fact, he has become so famous that now drug dealers are slapping his face on their packages of cocaine to show just how high quality their drugs are.
We know this because on Tuesday, authorities in Ecuador discovered 1,000 pounds of cocaine with Erling Haaland’s face on the bricks hidden inside a truck’s false bottom near the Colombian border.
An Ecuadorian police source reported that officers found the 1,034 pounds of cocaine after receiving an anonymous tip. Narcotics enforcement authorities made the bust on the Pan-American Highway after locating a suspicious vehicle. After puling the truck over, they discovered 370 green rectangular bundles concealed in a false floor in the truck’s bed.
Authorities took Maria R., a woman with a Colombian ID, into custody at the site. The operation took place around 246 kilometers north of Quito, the capital of Ecuador, in the Guayas Negro region, close to Tulcan.
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469 kg of cocaine. 370 packages. And Haaland’s face plastered all over them.
Ecuadorian police made the bizarre discovery during a drug bust near the Colombian border.
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According to CBS News, the seized cocaine would have been worth over $842,000 dollars on the Ecuadorian drug market, or more than $11 million in the United States.
Erling Haaland isn’t the only soccer star drug dealers have used recently to tout the quality of their product. Authorities recently found a picture of Lionel Messi, the leader of the Argentine national team, on packages of drugs in Peru.