Police in the Netherlands say their suspicions were aroused when they spotted a garden gnome among "varied suspected narcotics" during a drug bust. "Many of us are aware that drugs come in many shapes and sizes,

FREE! Dutch police were presumably ecstatic to find a garden gnome made of MDMA. The comically incongruous four-pound object was found among narcotics hauled in during a drug bust and tests showed what it was made of.

Police in southern Netherlands were in for a surprise during a drug raid at a house when they found a 2 kg garden gnome made of MDMA. Although MDMA, also known as ecstasy, is an illegal substance in the Netherlands, the country is among the world's leading producers of the hallucinogen.

Officers in the southern Netherlands have found a garden gnome weighing nearly 2kg (4lb) and made of the drug MDMA. "Drugs appear in many shapes and sizes, but every now and then we come across special things," Dongemond Police said in a translated social media post. The gnome was found among suspected narcotics during a large drug search.

Ornament weighing nearly two kilograms - or four founds - was among a stash of narcotics discovered in the southern province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands