A criminal cat has been detained by police after it was caught attempting to smuggle mobile phones and chargers into a Russian prison.
MOSCOW (AP) — Inmates at Russia’s prisons have been known to bribe guards to obtain cellphones. But using cats as couriers?
Guards patrolling a prison colony in Russia’s north saw a feline on the fence and it seemed to be carrying something. On a closer look, they found a few cellphones and chargers taped to the cat’s belly.
The federal prison service said Monday that this happened on Friday at Penal Colony No. 1 near the city of Syktyvkar in the Komi province, 1,000 kilometers (some 600 miles) northeast of Moscow.
It wasn’t clear how the cat was supposed to drop off its loot.
‘They have foiled various attempts to smuggle banned objects into Prison Colony Number One before,’ said a spokesman for the regional prison service. ‘But in the case of the cat, the prison colony is at a loss: nothing like this has happened in the prison’s history.’
Despite being caught in the act, it’s likely this particular feline will avoid a lengthy spell behind bars.
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