Such “carnivalesque” operations are also mounted on the occasion of Valentine’s Day or Halloween. Last February, an agent disguised as a teddy bear arrested traffickers.
The video, shared by the Peruvian National Police on Monday, December 23, is unusual to say the least: an agent disguised as the Grinch, the bogeyman of grumpy green hairs invented by author Theodor Seuss Geisel and having set himself the objective of ruining Christmas, is filmed arresting suspected drug traffickers in Lima, the capital.
In the video, the Grinch, dressed in a Santa costume, breaks down the door of a house where “La Reina del Sur”, “La Coneja” and “Pote” are staying with a sledgehammer. suspected members of the San Bartolo mafia “who is dedicated to the sale of narcotics”.
Operation similar to Valentine's Day
Accompanied by other police officers – one of them shouts «Police !» before handcuffing a woman inside the building – the disguised agent is filmed rummaging through plastic bags, trash cans or pipes? He unearths money and what appears to be drugs.
Such “carnivalesque” operations are also mounted on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. This year, an officer dressed as a teddy bear arrested a drug dealer.
The policeman, dressed as an orange bear and carrying a red balloon and a sign stating “you are my reason to smile”knelt in front of the drug traffickers' house. He then waited for one of the two wanted 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.
21.5 tonnes of cocaine seized in 2023
In 2023, Peruvian authorities seized 21.5 tons of cocaine 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.
A kilo of cocaine paste sells for at least $380 in Peru, while a kilo of cocaine hydrochloride – the purest drug – sells for around $1,000. Peru is also, with Bolivia, one of the largest producers of coca leaves – the raw material for cocaine – after Colombia.
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