Yahoo - AFP, 21 May 2014
A cat smells packages of marijuana seized in the municipality of Tulua on February 15, 2012 (AFP Photo/Luis Robayo) |
Wellington
(AFP) - Police in New Zealand have praised a crime-fighting cat that delivered
a bag of cannabis to its nonplussed owner.
Rather than
leaving a bird or mouse on the doorstep, the cat left a small plastic bag
filled with drugs as a gift on Sunday night, prompting its owner to call police
in the South Island city of Dunedin.
Officers
said they found five grams (0.2 ounces) of cannabis, with an estimated value of
NZ$150 ($130).
''You hear
of cats bringing dead birds and rats home but certainly in my career I've never
seen anything like this before," Sergeant Reece Munro told the Otago Daily
Times.
''I guess
you never really know who's keeping you honest these days, do you?"
Munro said
the owner of the cannabis had not been found, although police were planning to
check the plastic bag for fingerprints.
He said the
marijuana-sniffing moggy could become a new weapon in the fight against illicit
drugs.
''We
certainly have police dogs trained to detect drugs -- this might be something
police could explore in the future," he said.
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