The drug smugglers that fly into Dulles never cease to amaze us with their creative approaches to sneaking illicit substances into the country. Last week was no let-down: NBC4 reports that a Guatemalan man was stopped and found to have some three kilograms of cocaine hidden inside belts he was carrying. Generally speaking, it seems that more and more drugs are coming through the airport:

“We’ve definitely seen a rise at this airport,” said Dulles Airport supervisor Leonel Grullon. “This year alone had 50 pounds of heroin, another 52 pounds of cocaine.”

The first of the recent drug busts happened on September 15. Since then, agents have confiscated almost thirty pounds of illegal drugs from Guatemalan couriers, more than half of what agents seized in the 12-month period from October 2010 through September 2011.

Since we’ve been following drug trafficking into Dulles, these are some of the creative means that smugglers have employed to try and avoid detection: jars of cream and honey, chocolate bars and juice boxes, by swallowing a record-amount of heroin pellets, clams, bedposts, and powdered soup packets.

What will they think of next?