A PIGEON with a drug-stuffed pouch strapped to its chest has been nabbed by guards outside a prison.
The bird, carrying 14 grams of cocaine and cannabis, was spotted flying close to the jail in a bid by smugglers to sneak the drugs in.
Police in San Jose, Costa Rica, captured the bird on a patio outside and hauled it in before it made it over the medium-security prison’s walls.
A picture of the bird with a cable strapped to its leg to stop it escaping was posted by officers appealing for information about the incident.
It is thought smugglers trained the pigeon to sneak drugs to inmates.
The incident is not the first time a bird has landed itself in hot water.
Earlier this year, The Sun told how a pigeon was being kept under armed guard after being accused of spying in India.