The teddy bear was a lot less cute than it looked.
A Peruvian police brigade simulated a romantic visit this Tuesday, February 13, the eve of Valentine's Day, with one of its members disguised as a teddy bear to arrest two women suspected of belonging to a gang of drug traffickers in Lima (Peru).
Undercover agents discovered that two women were selling cocaine paste and marijuana from a house in the San Martin de Porres neighborhood in the north of the capital.
A police officer joined the raid “disguised as a teddy bear for the occasion,” explained Colonel Walter Palomino, brigade chief of the national police.
“It was a surprise operation”
The officer, dressed as an orange bear and carrying a red balloon and a sign reading "you are my reason to smile", knelt in front of the drug dealers' house.
He then waited for one of the two women to come out of the house, after which she was arrested with the support of other officers.
They then entered the house and apprehended the other woman.
“It was a surprise operation for them, to mark the day of love,” said the disguised NCO.
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Efectivos del #GrupoTerna, Región Policial Lima, uno de ellos mimetizado de osito de plush cariñosito, capturaron en San Martín de Porres a dos microcommercializadoras de droga.
It contains more than 1000 packages containing PBC.
¡If you quiere, you are already delinquent!
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The two women - a mother and her daughter - belong to the gang "Las tramposas de la droga" (drug cheats), according to the police.
Hundreds of packages of drugs were seized from their home.
More than 21 tons of cocaine seized in Peru in 2023
For some time, the police have been trapping criminals with disguises and operations launched on specific dates.
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In Peru, police officers disguised as Santa Claus to arrest drug dealers
Peruvian authorities seized 21.5 tonnes of cocaine in 2023 and dismantled 119 criminal networks linked to drug trafficking, according to the Interior Ministry.
Peru is one of the largest producers of cocaine in the world, with some 400 tonnes per year, according to official figures.