|
Post by M. Hawbaker on Aug 3, 2020 19:10:36 GMT
A cat that was detained at Sri Lanka’s high-security Welikada Prison on suspicion of smuggling drugs to inmates has escaped, according to local media reports in Aruna. The feline delinquent was detained last week with two grams of heroin, two SIM cards and a memory chip hidden in a plastic bag tied to its collar on the prison grounds. Police suspect that the drug traffickers who trained the cat are part of the same cartel that was caught using an eagle to smuggle drugs in a suburb of Colombo. The menagerie of accomplices were associated with the underworld crime boss Angoda Lokka.
While there is no stipulation for animal arrest under Sri Lankan law, police were hoping the cat could lead them to the smugglers’ den, the media reports suggest. The cat reportedly scampered out of its holding room and escaped through a fence when prison guards came in to feed it.
|
|
|
Post by barb43 on Aug 4, 2020 2:12:06 GMT
That was a fun read! Great article! I really hope they catch the cartel leaders, and bust their drug storage area, and put them out of business of awhile. I feel for the poor cat - it doesn't know what it's doing. And did you see that the cartel had previously used an eagle for deliveries?
|
|
|
Post by M. Hawbaker on Aug 4, 2020 15:35:45 GMT
I hope too that they get caught, but I would also really like to know how they managed to get a cat trained to go where they wanted it to when they wanted it to. All of the cats that I have been around, even the really friendly lovable ones, have been pretty much untrainable unless you were trying to get them to do what they already wanted to do anyway.
|
|