'Narcocat' Intercepted With Drug Delivery For Panama Prison

[Judi Lynn]

By AFP News on April 17 2021 2:48 PM

Authorities in Panama on Friday intercepted an unlikely smuggler, a fluffy white cat, bearing an assortment of drugs in a pouch tied to its body as it tried to enter a prison.

The feline felon was stopped outside the Nueva Esperanza jail, which houses more than 1,700 prisoners, in the Caribbean province of Colon, north of the capital Panama City.



The white cat bearing an assortment of drugs in a pouch tied to its body Panama's Prosecutor Office / -

"The animal had a cloth tied around its neck" that contained wrapped packages of white powder, leaves and "vegetable matter", according to Andres Gutierrez, head of the Panama Penitentiary System.

They were likely cocaine, crack and marihuana, according to another official.

This is not the first such attempted critter crime.

More:
https://www.ibtimes.com.au/narcocat-intercepted-drug-delivery-panama-prison-1705288

[tanyev]

1. I think the big news here is that someone trained a cat to do something on command.