Guards at Abbotsford Prison in British Columbia, Canada, caught a carrier pigeon in the facility’s yard with 30 grams of crystal meth tied to its back like a “backpack”. The Canadian jail has 500 prisoners and guards have not been able to find out who organized the “air” transport.
It is the first time in recent history that a pigeon used for drug smuggling has been caught: almost a century ago, according to media reports, there was talk of a pigeon with capsules full of cocaine on its legs transiting from Mexico to Texas was. and in the following decades the practice continued, from North America to Europe to Asia.
Correctional officers have increasingly looked for drones that bring drugs into prisons in recent years, but the crackdown on such devices has intensified, said John Randle, president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers in the Pacific region. Smugglers are going back to ‘old school’ methods Pigeons.
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