Guards from the Pacific Institution in Abbotsford stood in a closed air yard, where criminals regularly come to get some air or play a game. Until they suddenly discovered a pigeon with a white substance on its back.
‘Mounted’ as a backpack
“It was mounted like a backpack,” John Randle, regional president of the Union of Canadian Guards, told CBC. The jailers decided to surround the beast. “You can imagine what that was like, trying to catch a pigeon.”
When she finally succeeded, they took the drugs off his back and released the beast. Randle calls it frightening that criminals have managed to get crystal meth into prison with the help of a pigeon. Corrections Canada is investigating the incident.
In recent years, criminals have increasingly used drones to smuggle drugs and other items into prisons, but since they are more visible and cracked down on, they may be opting for “a more old-fashioned method,” Randle believes.