[Shadow_Group] Fw: Puppies & Heroin

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Heroin found hidden 
in puppies' bellies
Drug traffickers surgically hid drugs
A Colombian policeman shows a scar on a dog's stomach where drug
smugglers had surgically inserted heroin. 

Updated: 5:02 p.m. ET Jan. 5, 2005BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian drug
traffickers surgically hid heroin in puppies' bellies in a plan to evade
international customs controls, police said Tuesday.

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Acting on a tip-off, police found six puppies with scars on their
abdomens at a rural property near the city of Medellin in northern
Colombia, the Colombian Police said in a news release.

Ultrasound scans revealed bags of liquid heroin hidden inside the living
animals. Police said traffickers planned to retrieve the drug once the
dogs had passed customs abroad.

"The lust for money leads criminals to commit acts of great cruelty," the
police said.

The puppies were recovering after the heroin was removed by
veterinarians.

Using animals for smuggling is unusual although drug smugglers often rely
on couriers to swallow condoms full of drugs and one Colombian woman was
once found with cocaine surgically implanted in her buttocks.

Colombia is the world's largest producer of cocaine and the main supplier
of heroin to the United States.

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