Homing pigeon caught with cannabis and cocaine inside a Costa Rica prison

In a first for Costa Rica prisons, a pigeon was caught in its grounds with cocaine and cannabis. The bird was seen landing in the central concourse of the medium security La Reforma jail in San Rafael de Alajuela and was apprehended by the guards who took it into custody.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 14 August 2015.

The drugs were inside a tiny zipped up pouch strapped to the bird’s chest. The seizure was of about 14g of cocaine and at least the same amount of cannabis – its street value of around £180 ($281). The drugs were inside the pouch and wrapped in plastic.
It was the first time that Costa Rican authorities have come across this practice but such cases have been reported earlier in Argentina in 2013 and in Colombia in 2011. In fact, use of a pigeon is nothing new. Drug traffickers have used cats and dogs to pass drugs to prisoners.
During the Second World War, thousands of homing pigeons were used to send messages between front line Allied troops and top brass because these birds can be trained to travel several miles with small loads, according to the Royal Pigeon Racing Association.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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