Surfboards used to smuggle cocaine by international drug ring.

Police in Uruguay, with the help of counter-narcotics police in Spain, Portugal, and Italy, have arrested three Italian citizens for smuggling 50kg of cocaine from South America to Europe hidden inside surfboards. The smugglers had stuffed the inside of the surfboards with cocaine, and sniffer dogs alerted officers in Uruguay to the suspicious package. The transatlantic operation was "a model of international co-operation," according to the Uruguayan prosecutor's office.