Minions – whose role is to serve bad guys – are absolutely everywhere. They’re 40ft tall and blocking up Dublin roads, they’re swearing at you from inside Happy Meals and they’re organising flash mobs to prank people on the streets of Brazil. Now, they’re being used to smuggle coke. It was only a matter of time.

High-level Harlem dealer Albert Fortosa received a package on July 2. It was a Minion. Nothing unusual about that – except perhaps a grown man ordering a Minion – but the Minion came with gift wrapped boxes full of coke. Minions are hyper enough already FFS.

According to the New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor:

"Fortosa was arrested on July 2 at 230 West 111th St. as he accepted delivery of an express mail package that had the appearance of a child’s birthday gift, but actually concealed a kilogram of cocaine. The package was addressed to another individual. Inside was a gift bag with a stuffed toy Minion and two boxes covered in “happy birthday” wrapping paper. The gift wrapped boxes held the kilogram of cocaine."

Fortosa denies any wrongdoing, but it’s beyond us why nobody is questioning the Minion’s involvement in all of this. He was carrying a kilo of cocaine.