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Someone ditched a pair of Air Force 1’s at JFK airport recently.

But don’t rush to claim them, because the soles of the kicks were stuffed with cocaine, just one pair in a four pair sneaker smuggling operation gone bad a few days ago.

Wrote NBCnewyork.com: Customs agents at John F. Kennedy Airport found nearly five pounds of cocaine concealed in the soles of sneakers packed in abandoned luggage last week, Customs and Border Protection Officers said Monday.

The drugs were discovered Thursday when agents were examining leftover luggage that had arrived from the Dominican Republic, authorities said.

The officers discovered the sneakers inside a suitcase, and finding them unusually heavy, examined them more thoroughly.

They found white powdery substance inside, which tested positive for cocaine. The drugs had a street value of over $107,000, officials said.

The Air Force 1’s look like knock-offs just by looking at the color way, but the two pairs of white on white Hang Ten’s and a black pair of Ellesse’s look legitimate. All the shoes look like skate shoes.

After the break, see what else has been used to smuggle drugs!

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers busted a man, identified only by his last name, Ortega, trying to scuttle through with more than $220,000 worth of cocaine in his sneaks. Those look like D&G kicks to us.

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In 2010, Jean Vargas, 23, of Paterson, NJ was caught at JFK with more than six pounds of cocaine, valued at $280,000, stuffed inside his Wii pad. Via Gothamist.

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Last year a Romanian woman, on her back from South America, was busted in Italy after it was discovered that she was smuggling yayo in her bra and knickers. Value of the snuff? $44 million dollars. They said she was hot, though.

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Old German guy in Bermuda. Cocaine Drawers. Nuff said.

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Did you know you can hide coke in clothes hangers? You didn’t??? Well Home Land Security officers at JFK figured it out last year. Street value? Over 50 Grand. Jail time? Priceless.

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In 2003, cops seized heroin which was molded into furniture.

The geniuses behind this scheme used sanders to grind the molding into a mixture of heroin and resin that was glued on bed headboards, baseboards, nightstands and other bedroom furniture into powder. The powder was transferred into buckets, mixed with chemicals that extract the impurities and then poured through filters into four 55-gallon drums, said Lt. William Waters, head of Queens Narcotics Major Crime squad. Street value? $22 million. Via Gothamist.