It was a foul coo-urier.
A pigeon was detained last month in a Canadian prison after it was discovered he was carrying a backpack containing methamphetamine, reports the Globe and Mail over the weekend.
The bird was found and later captured on the Pacific Institution Correctional Facility near Vancouver after officers spotted the high-flying bird and its cargo.
“My first response was shock in any respect the advances in technology and the variety of drones we have seen,” said John Randle, regional president of the Canadian Correctional Officers Association in the Pacific Region. “The indisputable fact that he’s attached to a pigeon is abnormal.”
In response to Randle, the bird was kept on the wall of the penitentiary after staff set a trap for it.
“I feel he was spotted by prison officers and security intelligence officers as officers were doing their standard patrols across the unit and institution” – Randle said Global News on Friday. “That is after they first noticed the bird with the package.”
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Randle – who has never seen winged traffickers in his 13 years as a corrections officer – said smugglers would find it easier to get the drugs to a particular location in the event that they used a drone as a substitute of a living creature.
The official also noted that smugglers needed to go “old fashioned” with their methods recently as law enforcement increased their awareness of drug-smuggling drones – something Randle said the ability struggles with on a each day basis.
“They’ve gone backwards in technology,” he explained. “Possibly it’s due to all of the work we have done on banning drones that they are trying to seek out latest ways to smuggle contraband without being detected.”
While the drug pigeon incident is currently under investigation, Randle said the smugglers’ creativity must be “a giant concern for everybody”.
“The introduction of medicine into federal prisons is becoming an enormous crisis,” Randle fearful. “The most important purpose of prisons is to rehabilitate and release people into society as law-abiding residents, [so] introducing drugs is frightening, especially a drug like methamphetamine.”