j Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-24/spanish-police-arrest-vet-for-smuggling-heroin-inside-puppies/6569012 Vet arrested by Spanish police for allegedly smuggling heroin inside puppies Puppies had liquid heroin surgically implanted in them Photo: Liquid heroin was allegedly surgically implanted into puppies by Venezuelan vet Andres Lopez Elorza. (United States Drug Enforcement Administration) Spanish police said they have arrested a Venezuelan vet wanted by the United States for allegedly surgically implanting bags of liquid heroin inside puppies to smuggle the drugs into America. Bags of liquid heroin were inserted into puppies Photo: Bags of liquid heroin were inserted into puppies as part of a drug smuggling syndicate. (United States Drug Enforcement Administration) Police arrested Andres Lopez Elorza in the town of Santa Comba in Spain's north-western region of Galicia, where he had been hiding since a Spanish court last month approved his extradition to the US, police said in a statement. "This person, a veterinarian and member of a drug trafficking organisation, transported heroin from Colombia to the United States in implants which he placed inside puppies which he sent as pets," police said in a statement. Lopez, who is married with two children, was first detained on an international arrest warrant in December 2013 in Lugo, Galicia but was released while his extradition was being considered. He had been on the run since Colombian police in 2005 raided a clinic he ran in Medellin and found three kilograms of heroin implanted inside three puppies which were due to be flown to the US once their surgical scars had healed. After the raid, the US called on police forces worldwide to detain the vet on suspicion of drug smuggling. Spanish police said Lopez had remained inside the apartment in Santa Comba since the court ordered his extradition and had no contact with his wife and children to try to escape arrest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stressmagnet Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Am I the only one who wants to know what happened to the pups?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dame Aussie Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 3kgs?? a kilo in each pup?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Gifts Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Oh I want him to suffer for this. Even if there was only 1kg inside each pup imagine what would've happened to them had those bags burst? And they had uncessecary surgery. Arsehole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Crazy Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 (edited) Yes little gifts oh we can only hope... Karma please dole out a life time of HORRENDOUS suffering to these insidious b@st@rds... Edited June 24, 2015 by BC Crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuralPug Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Large breed pups would suffer less than small breed...there would have been MORE surgery to remove the drugs...sometimes I hate news media. I really really hope that this does not lead to copycat crimes. And I also hope that karma visits that vet in full and swiftly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Fugit Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 If you read the article you will see the smuggling happened about 10 years ago. It received wide publicity at the time. If I remember correctly there were similar incidences of implanting drugs in dogs into Europe. The puppies were killed to remove the drugs since once they had reached their destination they were of no further use. There was also an incidence of drug mule-dogs forced to ingest bags of cocaine - similar to human 'mules'. There was actually a notorious anti-narcotics video circulating featuring a drug-mule dog. If you google on dogs & drug smuggling you will probably find lots of articles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Also in the past the have used horses , mares mainly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSoSwift Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Good god, I had no idea and would never have thought of that. To awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoundHouse Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 How horrible, leave the dogs out of your dirty activities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Gifts Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Humans truly are a horrid and selfish species and yet we are free to own all the other living things on this earth and do with them what we want. And we think we have grown since our caveman days....pfft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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