18 August, 2015:
A pigeon was caught while smuggling cocaine and cannabis into a prison in Costa Rica.
The drugs were in a small zipped up pouch strapped in the pigeon’s chest. The pouch contained about 14 gm of cocaine and at least the same amount of cannabis.
After the drugs on the pigeon’s strapped pouch was found out, the bird was taken into custody. Costa Rica’s Ministry of Justice and Peace released the animal’s mugshot under the headline caption “narcopaloma”, which means “drugs dove”.
The pigeon was later taken to a zoo where it was expected to remain inside a cage.
Although it was the first time that the Costa Rican authorities had come across such practice, such incident were previously reported in Argentina in 2013 and Columbia in 2011. Cats and dogs were also being used to pass drugs to prisoners in the past.
