Living in Peru
Isabel Guerra

The Anti Drugs Police at Tarapoto (San Martín Region, in the Peruvian jungle) was startled when some his officers discovered a new method used by the local thugs to send drugs from one town to another: sewing cocaine into live turkeys.

Tarapoto's anti-drug police stopped a bus, expecting to find a package with drugs; however, they found a crate containing two live turkeys instead.

Otero Gonzalez, the local police chief, said to the press that they detected a handmade seam in the bird's chest area.

Then, a veterinarian was called, and he found 11 plastic capsules containing 1.9 kilograms (4.2 pounds) of cocaine from one turkey and 17 capsules with 2.9 kilograms (6.4 pounds) from the other.

The Anti Drugs Prosecutor Nancy Castillo said that the destination of the birds was the northern city of Trujillo (in Peru's northern coast