A police officer in Peru lured a drug dealer with a fake gift on “Valentine’s Day” (social networking sites)
A police officer from the Peruvian Street Crime Unit succeeded in catching two women selling drugs in the capital, Lima, after he disguised himself as a teddy bear and lured them with a fake gift on the eve of Valentine's Day.
The Peruvian police said in a statement on its page on the “X” platform yesterday, Wednesday, February 14, 2024: “Specialized officers from the Lima Police District, one of whom was disguised as a teddy bear on Valentine’s Day, arrested two small drug traffickers in San Martin de Porres.” ".
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🧸💔| Effects of the #GrupoTerna, Political Regiment of Lima, one of the other places in the car, capturaron in San Martín de Porres with the microcomercializadoras of the drug.
It comes with 1000 active contents of PBC.
¡Si te queere, te teja delinquer! pic.twitter.com/SxEvex08qc
- Policía Nacional del Perú (@PoliciaPeru) February 14, 2024
According to the statement, “more than a thousand packages containing PCBs were confiscated,” and he concluded: “If he really loved you, why would he let you commit a crime!”
According to what Spanish-language newspapers reported, “the undercover officer was wearing a brown bear costume and carrying a red balloon and a sign that said, ‘You are the reason I smile.’ He knelt in front of the drug sellers’ house,” then motioned for the woman to go out into the street and receive her gift of flowers and chocolate on “Valentine’s Day.” ".
Upon seeing the doll carrying gifts, the suspected woman left her home, and the policeman and his colleagues arrested her, who disguised themselves as workers and pinned her to the ground, then entered and arrested the other seller.
According to the newspapers, the woman's voice can be heard in the video clip saying that she did not do anything, but the officers handcuffed her and took her to the police station, then searched her house, where prohibited materials were stored.
The police in the Peruvian capital, Lima, dedicate a plainclothes unit called “Escuadron Verde,” or “Green Squad,” to combat street crimes, including thefts and drug trafficking.
In December 2023, one of the unit's undercover officers disguised himself as Santa Claus before another raid on a drug den, breaking down the front door with a sledgehammer while other officers broke into the second floor through a window.
In 2023, Peruvian authorities seized 21.5 tons of cocaine and dismantled 119 criminal networks linked to drug trafficking, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
Peru is one of the largest producers of cocaine in the world, producing about 400 tons annually, according to official figures.
A kilogram of the drug's base paste sells for at least $380 in Peru, while a kilogram of cocaine hydrochloride - the purest drug - sells for about $1,000.
Peru is also, along with Bolivia, one of the largest producers of coca leaves (the raw material for cocaine) after Colombia.
Innovative tricks to catch criminals
Police tricks are not limited to Peru. In 2017, the British South Yorkshire Police resorted to a strange trick to trap 21 people wanted in cases of robbery, drugs, sexual harassment, assault, fraud, and driving under the influence of alcohol.
The plan, which some considered to be adapted from the famous “The Simpsons” cartoon series, was for the police to send Christmas cards to a number of wanted criminals who had changed their places of residence to avoid arrest.
The cards bore the signature of a fake company, and promised those who received the cards that it would send them free gifts on the occasion of Christmas, and those who wished had to specify a specific time and place to receive them. At the specified time and place, police forces arrived instead of the gifts, and the criminals were arrested.
At that time, Sheffield City Police issued a statement in which they said, “We felt proud to have participated in this wonderful operation. 21 criminals were arrested in just two days, and some of them had signs of shock and incomprehension on their faces. Some of them even asked us if they could still... Get gifts though."
In 1985, 13 fugitive criminals were arrested in Miami (the second largest city in the US state of Florida) after being informed by mail that they had won a ticket from Bonneau Airlines to spend a weekend in the Bahamas, with $350 for each person. To spend on the trip.
At the appointed time, the criminals were escorted to the airport in luxury limousines, where they were arrested, except for one man who suspected the matter and refused the free trip and headed to the airport alone, but he was not aware that the security team was putting this possibility into its plan and allocated a fake ticket office at the airport. When the fugitive criminal No. 13 arrived, he was arrested.
In 2002, the police in the city of Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona, decided to conduct an arrest campaign. But instead of tracking down each criminal individually, the police resorted to a trick that made the perpetrators come to them; She sent them letters stating that they had won a DVD player and inviting them to come to the Chandler Center for the Arts on the scheduled date to receive their prize.
A few dozen people showed up, registered their IDs at a check-in table, before being led into the next room where they were immediately arrested.
Source: Al Jazeera + Spanish press + social networking sites