In Peru, a weird operation caught everybody’s consideration as police officer dressed as a capybara carried out a medication raid.
The incident, captured on video in Lima on Valentine’s Day, exhibits the costumed officer apprehending a suspected medicine trafficker.
The footage depicts the officer forcefully coming into the premises, subduing the suspect and securing him with handcuffs.
Police reported discovering greater than 1,700 packages of cocaine and marijuana in the course of the search.
The recording concludes with the costumed officer photographed alongside the suspect and the seized substances displayed on a desk, Each day Mail reported.
This operation was executed by Peru’s Escuadron Verde, a specialised anti-drugs unit recognized for utilizing festive disguises throughout operations on events like Valentine’s Day, Halloween and Christmas.
The unit has beforehand employed superhero costumes together with Spiderman, Captain America, Thor and Black Widow throughout raids.
Col Pedro Rojas, the unit’s commander, said: ‘On this event, Valentine’s Day, lover’s day, we sought to camouflage ourselves with the character of the capybara.’
Final Halloween, two Peruvian officers, dressed as Deadpool and Wolverine, raided a suspected medicine operation in Lima.
Moreover, final December in Lima, an officer dressed as Santa Claus apprehended two suspects dealing cocaine and marijuana from a residence.
In response to UN knowledge, Peru ranks among the many world’s main producers of coca leaf and cocaine. A authorities research from June confirmed an 18 p.c enhance in coca leaf cultivation space throughout 2022. Most cultivation happens in protected areas and indigenous Amazon communities close to Brazilian and Colombian borders.
Whereas coca leaf chewing for vitality and altitude illness stays authorized, officers estimate 90 p.c serves illicit drug manufacturing, with cultivation rising yearly since 2015.
