Pigeons Smuggling Drugs

(Marilia, Brazil) According to this report, contraband is transported into and out of prisons by pigeons.

Prison officers in Marilia discovered drugs and mobile phones were being carried to inmates.

The plot was uncovered when a jail stepped up security and found a visitor carrying two pigeons inside a box.

The guards then spotted several birds struggling to get off the ground because they were weighed down by tiny backpacks.

Pigeon trainer Wanderlei Gatti said: "Someone is breeding these pigeons inside the cells and they are being tamed inside the prison."

Marilia is a city northwest of Sao Paulo.

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