High fashion: North Macedonia uncovers drug-laced clothes

SKOPJE, North Macedonia – Authorities in North Macedonia have charged three people with smuggling a suitcase packed with cocaine-laced clothes into the country from Peru.

A statement from the prosecutor’s office Tuesday said checks conducted in a laboratory in neighboring Serbia found that the clothes – including underwear, T-shirts and a leather jacket – had been immersed in a cocaine solution to dodge customs controls.

Nearly 2.2 pounds of the drug was extracted from the clothes.

The suspects were identified as two Montenegrin citizens, who believed to have ordered the cocaine, and a Peruvian, who allegedly brought the clothes in his suitcase. The prosecutor’s statement said the suitcase had travelled through the airports of Sao Paulo, Frankfurt and Vienna.