Brazil News
RIO DE JANEIRO – Correctional officers in northeastern Brazil captured a house cat carrying contraband items into a prison last Sunday. Officials at the facility in Alagoas state said the cat carried hacksaw blades, drill bits, a cellphone and various accessories.
According to the prison warden, Anderson Soares, tape secured all the items to the animal. Guards captured the feline smuggler late Sunday night and carefully removed the items from the animal’s body.
One of the correctional officers who participated in capturing the cat said that inmates raised it in secret, and then sent it home with a family member on visiting day. “We were surprised with the detainee’s new tactic,” he told G1.
The warden urged staff to pay more attention to avoid unusual situations like this. After carefully removing the smuggled items, prison officials turned the cat over to animal control in Arapiraca, where it faces an uncertain future.
This is not the first case of inmates using a cat to smuggle contraband into prison. In Nov. 2010, guards at a prison in the Russian republic of Tatarstan caught a cat attempting to sneak 15 grams of heroin to an inmate.
Major newspapers and news portals around the world reported Saturday, the story of the cat caught smuggling contraband items into a prison in Alagoas Dec. 31. If you read the Brazil Dispatch, you would have read the story here first, Friday.
Arapiraca is a rapidly growing municipality located in the interior of the Brazilian state of Alagoas, 135 kilometers from the state capital, Maceio. Founded in 1924, it is the second largest city in Alagoas and has a population of around 214 thousand.
Amazing.
Any idea if the cat belonged to a specific inmate, or was it raised by several prisoners?
Is there anywhere I could find out more information on this story? I am interested in writing a song about this.
Thanks!
if you search google news for ‘Brazil,’ you will see lots of stories published today in English language media.
The cat was sentenced to 18 months.
I love cat so Brazil don’t catch.Free,Free,Free.