Despite the bird's best efforts, the cops arrested the pair. Also seized were large quantities of heroin, weapons and cash. Oh yea, and the officers also took the parrot into custody.
“So far it hasn’t made a sound … completely silent,” says local vet Alexandre Clark, who was brought in to interrogate the animal. So the cops are transferring the feathered perp to a zoo where it will be taught to fly and be paroled back into the wild.
In 2008, cops captured two alligators following a raid in western Rio de Janeiro. Apparently the drug barons fed their enemies to the animals. So the man-eating reptiles had to be destroyed.
Drug trafficking is a major problem in Brazil and so apparently are the pets the traffickers train and keep.
