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22 accused in using puppies to smuggle drugs
Drug enforcement officials: Colombians surgically inserted heroin into dogs

MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 10:52 a.m. ET Feb. 2, 2006

The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested 22 Colombian nationals for smuggling heroin into the United States via various methods, including surgically implanting the drug into puppies, officials said Wednesday.

The Colombian organization brought more than 20 kilograms of heroin into the United States, concealing some of it by slitting open purebred puppies, according to John P. Gilbride, the DEA?s New York Field Division special agent-in-charge, in a news release.

At least three puppies died from having liquid heroin packets placed inside them and then being stitched back up, DEA spokesman David Ausiello said.

Human couriers, or ?swallowers,? also ingested the heroin packets to transport them overseas. The group also hid drugs in body creams, aerosol cans and along the lining of purses and luggage.

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, Reuters reported.
DEA
Traffickers put liquid heroin packets into dogs and humans to get past customs, the DEA said.

?The organization?s outrageous and heinous smuggling method of implanting heroin inside puppies is a true indication of the extent that drug dealers go to make their profit,? Gilbride said. ?This investigation identified the individuals who were responsible for overseeing and smuggling millions of dollars worth of heroin from Colombia to the East Coast.?

More than $20 million worth of heroin is involved, NBC News reported.

Wednesday?s arrests were the culmination of a two-year investigation that identified a drug trafficking organization based in Medellin, Colombia, whose distribution network reached from Miami to New York City, the DEA said.

In January 2005, police in Colombia had found six puppies with scars on their abdomens at a rural property. 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.

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

NBC News and Reuters contributed to this report.

Heartless, cruel viruses humans are.

The length's people will go to smuggle drugs. Truly sad..

I read that earlier..i suppose if they don't care about human life they aren't going to care about animal life.

sad but true.

thats frickin wrong. if you want to take a chance swallowing that crap take it.. but putting dogs or any animal into that is wrong..that shit pisses me off.. :(

They should out the herion in their stomach and kick them till they rip and let those fuckers die.

Yeah, i think that if you do cruel shit to animals, you should be treated in the same way.

that is just fcuked up!! I can't believe what some people will do... As a pet owner, that is just fucking sad...

Yeah I saw that story on the news last nite. Some people will do anything for a buck...:disgust

these people don't care about anything except drugs and money

it's so fucking wrong...

if they can use humans as mule, there's no excuse for drug smugglers to use helpless animals

so horrible...just so fucking horrible!

drug smugglers are probably the most creative people in this planet...

:mad: What a disturbing trend these pricks go to

What twisted fuckshits..

All that shit should be legalized so it wouldn't be worth smuggling into the countries where it's illegal by any and all means. It's not the drug, it's the fact that it so illicit that drives its underground market value up... makes the profits bigger... anyway I've been on this spiel before i'm gonna drop it. Bad enough we talk and dsitrubute porn, imagine if we advocated legal cocaine... aie.

damn, what will they think of next. Poor puppies :(

very bad!!! next thing youll know theyd be stuffing dogs with drugs, then stuffing the dogs inside horses and then stuffing the horses inside elephants...:mad:

Some people are so damn heartless. :(

Those stupid guys!
How could they be so heartless and merciless! They are worse than the worst animal.. How can they endure using innocent puppies just to satisfy their wordly desires. They deserve a place in prison!

Have you ever seen what heroin does to people? Legalize marijuana - maybe

Not heroin

oh that's really sad...and a cruel thing to do with those poor innocent creatures :(