WORLD BRIEFING / BRAZIL
Inmates have come up with an innovative way to smuggle cellphones into a prison farm in Brazil: carrier pigeons.
Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba last week noticed a pigeon resting on a utility wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its legs.
“The guards nabbed the bird after luring it down with some food and discovered components of a small cellphone inside the bag,” police investigator Celso Soramiglio said.
A day later, another pigeon was spotted dragging a similar bag in the prison’s exercise yard. Inside the bag was the charger for the cellphone, Soramiglio said.
The birds were apparently bred and raised inside the prison, smuggled out, outfitted with the cellphone parts and then released to fly back.
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