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Once the DEA caught wind of the jeans gimmick, Escobar opted for soaking the boxes that the jeans came in. The DEA spent hours washing the jeans while Escobar’s men would dig up the boxes out of the trash and recover the coke.

Escobar’s most ingenious technique came in the form of liquid cocaine. He soaked jeans in the liquid cocaine and exported them legally. The buyers would simply wash the jeans with a special liquid, extract the cocaine and dry it.

When the Cartel started smuggling coke into the U.S., they stuffed mules stomachs with pellets. Everyone was on the payroll. From airline pilots to pregnant women.

The DEA then started using drug-sniffing dogs, the cartel countered by stuffing it inside fish and coffee shipments to mask the smell.

At first the Medellin Cartel hid it inside of car tires.

The nature of drug smuggling is well… the smuggling. Drug dealers have to get it past people who are actively looking to find it and seize it. Escobar came up with some of the cleverest ways to hide cocaine from the police.

Once the DEA caught wind of the jeans gimmick, Escobar opted for soaking the boxes that the jeans came in. The DEA spent hours washing the jeans while Escobar’s men would dig up the boxes out of the trash and recover the coke.

Escobar’s most ingenious technique came in the form of liquid cocaine. He soaked jeans in the liquid cocaine and exported them legally. The buyers would simply wash the jeans with a special liquid, extract the cocaine and dry it.