This story made me chuckle when I first read it, as much for the delicious pun in the first paragraph of the accompanying news article as the ineptness of the crooks involved.
A metre and a half statue of Miguel de Cervantes, the author of the novel Don Quixote, was due to be sent on a cargo plane from Bogota to Spain when, during a routine check, police noticed that the cost of shipping the package was three times the value of the statue.
They ran a test for cocaine residue, which came back positive, and then smashed the statue, prompting the Associated Press journalist to write:
The war on drugs has been called quixotic but not even the man of La Mancha could have dreamed up the scheme used by Colombian traffickers to smuggle five kilograms of cocaine in a marble bust of his creator, Miguel de Cervantes.
The journo concluded by first stating that Colombia is the biggest producer of cocaine and then that in 2005:
Colombian security forces confiscated a record 223 tonnes of cocaine. The amount is believed by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials to represent no more than 20 per cent of the total amount of drugs that were successfully smuggled out of the country.