"Catch him!"
A small commotion broke out inside a Canadian prison.
The goal is 'the guy with the suspicious package'.
They even carefully drive him in to catch him.
The identity of the culprit they caught after a long chase was none other than 'pigeon'.
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▲ A prison guard who caught a pigeon with a suspicious package
On the 10th (local time), foreign media such as CBC News in Canada reported that on December 29 last year, a pigeon with a package of methamphetamine hanging from its body was caught at a federal prison in British Columbia, Canada.
John Randle of the Canadian Corrections Service explained the situation at the time through a local interview, saying, "In the yard where the inmates were doing outdoor activities, they saw a suspicious pigeon carrying a small package on its back."
He continued, "I thought it would fly away if I approached it right away, so I carefully drove it into a corner."
Afterwards, only the package hanging from the body of the pigeon was secured and released.
According to Randall, the package contained about 30 grams of crystal meth.
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▲ About 30g of methamphetamine captured in a suspicious package
If you administer 0.03g, which is an average one dose, it is a huge amount equivalent to about 1,000 doses.
A prison guard with 13 years of experience said, "There have been attempts at smuggling through drones or direct throwing, but drug smuggling through pigeons is the first time I've experienced it." It seems to be trying."
He added, "Pigeons are animals that were once used to save lives, but it is unfortunate that they are now being used for smuggling."
It is unknown whether the ringleaders of the attempted smuggling via pigeons were prison inmates or outsiders.
However, the prison said that it has launched a joint investigation with the Canadian Corrections Service by injecting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to track additional 'drug pigeons'.
Pigeons for 'communication', now to 'drug transport'... The crime of drug smuggling is evolving
Pigeons were not initially used as a means of drug trafficking.
It is said that pigeons, which have a strong homing instinct among animals, have been used for communication since ancient Egypt, such as binding letters to their legs and sending them flying.
In particular, because of the advantage of being able to avoid eavesdropping or jamming by the enemy, even during World War I and II, the British, French, and German troops 'conscripted' numerous pigeons and used them as operational communication soldiers.
As time passed, the method of using pigeons became more and more sophisticated, and now they are trying to smuggle drugs.
Cases of drug smuggling using birds are gradually increasing, such as delivering drugs by attaching a small box containing drugs to the ankle of a trained pigeon and sending it flying.
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▲ A pigeon caught delivering drugs while wearing a backpack in 2017
In 2017, Kuwait customs authorities caught a suspicious pigeon carrying a 'small bag', and 178 pills of 'ecstasy' (a drug that induces hallucinations and confusion) were found in the bag.
Also, in 2019, in a prison in Brazil, a pigeon was caught that was believed to have delivered drugs or gang messages to the inside.
At the time, the pigeon was carrying a red bag with the letters 'PCC', the initials of a notorious Brazilian criminal organization, and it was said that there was nothing in the bag at the time of arrest.
(Photo = Al Arabiya Twitter, CBC NEWS video capture)