For the head of a dog who smelled a ton of cocaine they offered $70 000 dollars

News24xx.com - A large Colombian drug mafia offered the police 200 million pesos ($ 69,500) in exchange for a shepherd dog specialized in searching for drugs called Ghost. About that reports the portal Tvnotas.

Shepherd serves in the Colombian police department in the fight against drugs, where dog participated in 300 operations and helped track down 246 drug dealers. Over the past three years, the dog was able to detect about nine tons of cocaine, which dealt a serious blow to the budget of the «Clan Bay» gang, which trades in illicit drug trafficking. Having knew about the dog's abilities, the leader of the band Dario Usuga offered the police a large reward in exchange for the dog's life.

After information about the remuneration from the mafia, the police decided to transfe Ghost to the service at the «El-Dorado» Airport in Bogota, where it will be safer.

In March 2017 it became known that an attempt to import drugs hidden in a cage with a dog was stopped at the airport in New York. The bottom of the cage in which the animal was located turned out to be double. During the search under it police found about 10 kilograms of heroin.