Pigeon ‘Caught Smuggling Meth’ – Drug Smuggling Pigeons

The Truth News — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:55:57 +0000

Pigeon ‘Caught with Backpack of Meth’

Pigeon ‘Caught Smuggling Drugs’

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The drugs are believed to be ketamine, an anaesthetic also used as an illegal party drug

A pigeon found in a Canadian prison yard with a tiny backpack filled with meth is carrying on a decades-long tradition of avian drug smuggling.

The pigeon was captured at the Pacific Institution in Abbotsford, British Columbia, in late December, according to the CBC.

John Randle, Pacific regional president of the Union for Canadian Correctional Officers, told the CBC the bird was in an inmate yard when officers on site noticed it had a tiny package on its back; that package contained 30 grams of meth.

“They had to corner it,” Randle said. “You can imagine how that would look, trying to catch a pigeon.” He said they captured the bird after “a lengthy period of time,” seized the drugs, and set it free.

Corrections Canada is investigating the incident, according to media reports.

While prison staff, visitors, mail, and drones are more commonly used to get contraband into jail, pigeons also have a long history of transporting drugs—and also wearing tiny backpacks, apparently.

A New York Times article from Feb 2, 1930, noted that pigeons with capsules of drugs like cocaine tied to their legs were plaguing the southern border. Being surrounded by pigeons is undesirable at the best of times, even more so when they’re participating in the drug trade.

The Times reported that smugglers were raising their own homing pigeons, a breed that can travel great distances and still return to their home lofts. Pigeons can fly up to 700 miles a day, according to the Pigeon Control Resource Center.

In 2017, a homing pigeon carrying 178 pills from Iraq to Kuwait in yes, another backpack, was trapped by Kuwaiti officials near customs, according to the publication Al Arabiya. Conflicting news reports from the time said the pills were either ketamine or ecstasy.

And lest we forget, “Narco Paloma,” a pigeon busted smuggling weed and cocaine into La Reforma, a maximum security prison in Costa Rica in 2015, and then turned into a meme. The bird was turned over to a rehab center afterward—the kind for animals.

Customs officials in Kuwait have apprehended a pigeon carrying drugs in a miniature backpack, Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai reports.

A total of 178 pills were found in the fabric pocket attached to its back, the newspaper says.

The bird was caught near the customs building in Abdali, close to the border with Iraq.

An al-Rai journalist said the drugs were a form of ketamine, an anaesthetic also used as an illegal party drug.

Abdullah Fahmi told the BBC that customs officials already knew pigeons were being used to smuggle drugs, but this was the first time they had caught a bird in the act.

Law enforcement officials elsewhere have, however, identified previous cases where pigeons have been used to carry lightweight high-value narcotics.

In 2015, prison guards in Costa Rica caught a pigeon carrying cocaine and cannabis in a zipped pouch.

And in 2011, Colombian police discovered a pigeon that was unable to fly over a high prison wall because of the weight of a package of cocaine and marijuana strapped to it.

Pigeons have been used to carry messages since Roman times, using their powerful “homing” ability.

Racing pigeons can return to their lofts from distances of hundreds of kilometers.

Pigeon wearing backpack of crystal meth detained by Canadian prison

It was a bad coo-urier.

A pigeon was detained last month in a Canadian jail after it was discovered to be carrying a backpack that contained crystal meth, the Globe and Mail reported over the weekend.

According to John Randle, Pacific regional president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers, the bird was apprehended on the penitentury wall after the staff set a trap for it.
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The bird was found and later captured at the Pacific Institution correctional facility near Vancouver after officers noticed the high-flying fowl and its cargo.

“My initial reaction was shock because of all the advancements in technology and the number of drones we’ve seen,” said John Randle, Pacific regional president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers. “The fact that it’s tied to a pigeon is abnormal.”

According to Randle, the bird was apprehended on the penitentury wall after the staff set a trap for it.

“It was spotted by correctional officers, I believe, and security intelligence officers when the officers were doing their standard patrols around and throughout the unit and institution,” Randle told Global News on Friday. “That’s when they initially spotted the bird with the package on it.”

Though the drug pigeon incident is currently under investigation, Randle said that the creativity of smugglers should be a “massive concern to everybody.”
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Randle — who has never seen winged traffickers in his 13 years as a corrections officer — stated that the smugglers would have had an easier time getting the drugs to land in specific location if they had used a drone instead of a live creature.

The official also noted that smugglers have recently had to go “old school” with their methods, as law enforcement has increased their awareness of drug-smuggling drones — something which, Randle said, the facility contends with daily.

“They have gone backward in technology,” he explained. “Maybe that’s because of all the work we have done with drone interdiction that they are trying to find new ways to get contraband in without being detected.”

Though the drug pigeon incident is currently under investigation, Randle said that the creativity of smugglers should be a “massive concern to everybody.”

“The introduction of drugs into federal prisons is becoming a huge crisis,” worried Randle. “The whole goal of prisons is to rehabilitate and release people into society as law-abiding citizens, [so] introducing drugs is scary and especially a drug like crystal meth.”

This is not only happening in Canadian Prisons but At Peruvian Prison, Costa Rica Prison, United Kingdom Prison and Even Kuwait

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Federal Inmates Suffered Years Sexually Abused by Prison Officers

The Truth News — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 07:28:20 +0000

Federal Inmates Suffered Years Sexually Abused by Prison Officers

‘A living hell’: Former federal inmates describe years of sexual abuse by prison officers

WASHINGTON – Three survivors of sexual assault in federal prison described years of horrific abuse by prison staffers who used their unfettered access to vulnerable inmates and threatened them with retaliation if they reported the attacks.

All three former inmates, their voices cracking with emotion, told a Senate investigative panel Tuesday that the federal Bureau of Prisons had failed them and often shielded their attackers from accountability.

One of the victims, Linda De La Rosa, told the committee, which has been investigating the sexual abuse of federal inmates for the past eight months, that her attacker had full access to her personal files and used the information to gain leverage over her.

My life was a living hell,” De La Rosa told lawmakers, describing the abuse that started in 2019 and involved at least three other inmates at a federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky.

he attacker was later charged and is now serving a 135-month prison sentence, but De La Rosa said the officer had been previously accused of sexual offenses against other inmates when he was stalking and attacking her.

Senate committee Chairman Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., said the investigation also concluded that the Bureau of Prisons system has so far proved incapable of detecting and preventing such attacks.

“This situation is intolerable,” Ossoff said. “It is cruel and unusual punishment.”

The panel’s inquiry is yet another assessment of the agency’s systemic failure to ensure the safety of inmates, especially women.

Last week, a former warden of a California federal prison, known as the “rape club,” was convicted on eight criminal counts for his abuse of three inmates.

Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters, in an interview this week with USA TODAY, said Justice Department officials are considering the early release of inmates who were victims of the warden and other staffers at the prison.

“I am open to this consideration that is a very complex issue, which is why it’s under pretty significant review,” Peters told USA TODAY. “I think we’re concerned about consistency, I think we’re concerned about fairness, and so I think that each case is unique.”

The testimony of the former inmates, however, represented a powerful condemnation of the agency’s past response to such abuse, while the committee reported that the internal investigations unit is plagued by a backlog of 8,000 investigations including hundreds of sexual assault claims.

Peters was appointed as the agency’s director in August following years of near-constant turmoil in which staffers’ incompetence or misconduct also factored into the 2018 prison murder of mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger and the 2019 suicide of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Story by Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY

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Pigeon ‘Caught Smuggling Meth’ – Drug Smuggling Pigeons

Pigeon ‘Caught with Backpack of Meth’

Pigeon ‘Caught Smuggling Drugs’

Pigeon wearing backpack of crystal meth detained by Canadian prison

This is not only happening in Canadian Prisons but At Peruvian Prison, Costa Rica Prison, United Kingdom Prison and Even Kuwait

Federal Inmates Suffered Years Sexually Abused by Prison Officers

Federal Inmates Suffered Years Sexually Abused by Prison Officers

‘A living hell’: Former federal inmates describe years of sexual abuse by prison officers