New Delhi: An unlikely drug smuggler, a fluffy white cat, was caught outside the Nueva Esperanza jail in Panama. The feline was carrying a pouch filled with an assortment of drugs trying to enter the prison in the Caribbean province of Colon, north of the capital Panama City which houses 1700 prisoners.
Prisoners are known to use food to lure the animal once it is loaded with drugs and sent into the prison.
"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 according to an AFP report. These were likely cocaine, crack and marijuana said another official.
The office of the drugs prosecutor of Colon took to Twitter and said that they had open an investigation into the the use animals for smuggling drugs into the prison.
In the meanwhile, the cat has been given to a pet adoption center and will be cared for until somebody decides to adopt it.
The National Police of Panama tweet "Committed to the welfare of our domestic animals, the Nueva Esperanza Penitentiary Complex in the province of Colón delivered a cat to the Adopt for Love and Animal Defenders Foundation.#UnPanamáMejor"
Strangely enough, this is not first of such events, previously, pigeons and drones were caught trying to deliver drugs into prisons.