VIDEO / 'Narco' cat caught smuggling drugs into prison

2025-05-21 16:10:13Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The cat was used to smuggle drugs into the prison

Guards in Costa Rica have intercepted an unusual drug shipment to a prison, via a cat as it jumped over a perimeter fence with marijuana and cocaine attached to its body.

The black-and-white cat, carrying over 230 grams of marijuana and 67 grams of cocaine in two packages, was caught this month in a prison in the canton of Pococ, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement last week.

The ministry shared a video of a guard climbing a perimeter fence to capture the cat.

Later, the cat is seen on a prison table as guards carefully cut the packages from its tiny body and remove the drugs from its fur.

"Thanks to the quick actions (of the guards), the cat was caught and the packages were removed, thus preventing them from reaching" the prisoners, the ministry said.

According to the BBC, prison officials handed the cat over to the National Animal Health Service for an assessment.

Some social media commentators mocked the incident. "And how many years in prison will the cat get?" one person commented.

Others expressed outrage and pity for the cat. "How cruel," one commenter wrote. "The poor little cat."


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