Police dress up as World Cup mascots to carry out drug sting

Two Peruvian constabulary officers disguised arsenic World Cup mascots Clutch and Maple helped to apprehension a suspected cause trader successful Lima, the latest successful a bid of instrumentality enforcement operations successful the state involving officers utilizing originative costumes to apprehend accused criminals.

Col. Carlos Alcántara, caput of the Green Squadron — a portion that combats communal transgression — said they captured Carlos Cabrera, 48, with the assistance of the 2 undercover agents connected Thursday during the opening lucifer of the World Cup betwixt Mexico and South Africa.

"Thanks to quality work, we realized that this idiosyncratic was a diehard shot instrumentality and was caught up successful World Cup fever," Alcántara told The Associated Press. "Therefore, we decided to disguise unit arsenic World Cup mascots truthful we could attack him without raising suspicion and apprehend him."

The officers successful mascot costumes utilized a metallic sledgehammer to interruption down a doorway to participate with colleagues. Police posted video of the raid connected societal media, showing officers collecting grounds astatine the country and apprehending the suspect.

Two Peruvian constabulary officers disguised arsenic World Cup mascots Clutch and Maple helped to apprehension a suspected cause trader successful Lima. Peru Police

For the World Cup, Clutch is simply a bald eagle representing the United States, portion Maple is simply a moose representing Canada. México is symbolized by a jaguar named Zayu.

Police said 2,524 packets of cocaine basal and a weapon were recovered during the operation. In Perú, the micro-trafficking of drugs is punishable by 3 to 7 years successful situation erstwhile a idiosyncratic is recovered with 5 to 50 grams of cocaine base.

In erstwhile operations, Peruvian constabulary person disguised themselves arsenic different fictional movie characters specified arsenic the Grinch, Freddy Krueger, Deadpool and Wolverine and adjacent Santa Claus to attack those they are going to apprehension without arousing suspicion.

In 2024, Peruvian constabulary dressed an serviceman successful a carnivore costume connected the eve of Valentine's Day and equipped him with balloons and gifts to coax a pistillate cause fishy from her home.

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