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Police caught two cats used to transport drugs

By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

The police of the Nelson Mandela Jail in San Carlos*, and the police of the Jorge Arturo Montero Jail in Pococí*, reported the capture of two cats inside the jail facilities with bags of drugs attached to their pet collars.

The respective police reports say that in both cases, the police detected felines trying to enter to the jail. Each cat had a bag of drugs attached to its collar.

The bag on the cat caught in San Carlos Jail contained 158.9 grams of marijuana and the bag on the cat’s collar in Pococi's jail carried a package of 286.00 grams of marijuana plus a cell phone charger.

Nils Ching, Deputy Director of Penitentiary Police, said, "these new cases are a continuing challenge for them and that police have to use tools like video surveillance to interdict criminal acts".

The police are investigating the routes of the cats using surveillance tapes and interviews to find the person or persons using the cats for drug deliveries.

This is not the first case in which an animal was used to transport drugs to a jail.

In 2015, as A.M. Costa Rica reported,  the police had caught a trained pigeon used to carry drugs to prisoners in the La Reforma Prison in Alajuela*.

In that case, ,police reported that they noticed a bulge in the chest of a pigeon that arrived at the open medium security module of the jail.


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The bag on the cat caught in San Carlos Jail
contained 158.9 grams of marijuana.



The bird was found to be carrying a package containing 14 grams of cocaine and 14 grams of marijuana.

A statement given by Pablo Bertozzi, director of the Penitentiary Police at that time, "it was not possible to determine to whom the drugs were sent by pigeon".

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