Police In Genoa, Italy,

knew that drugs were being sold, but where?

photograph Hair Spies/Unsplash, the area they were interested in was the Foce area, an investigative unit was charged with gathering more information and with the collaboration of the Forte San Giuliano police station, they set up surveillance teams to spot any unusual activity, not a lot happened but, one team did notice a large number of bald and beardless men going to a barbers shop, and it was not for a haircut! first, the Carabinieri (Italian Police), raided the 55-year-old’s barbers house where several grams of hashish were found, and then his barbershop, where, hidden in a mezzanine, 100 grams of cocaine, four precision scales, and materials for drug packaging were found, the drug-dealing barber has been taken to Marassi prison where he is awaiting sentencing, the article is here, but here in the UK a similar ruse was used involving a barbers shop,

photograph Kevin Dunnett, an illegal den was uncovered by cops who caught two Albanian ­brothers running cocaine from South East London to the Midlands, from? you guessed it, a barbers shop, just an observation, I could not help but notice how many barbers shops there are in Beckenham, could one or two be fronts for drugs? but that leads to the question of how would ladies buy their drugs as the could not go into a men's barber shop? nail saloons of course! strangely enough there are so many of them in Beckenham too, it does make me wonder.....