Convicts grow pigeons to bring them drugs

Sarajevo - Four convicts of a prison in the central Bosnian town of Zenica trained carrier-pigeons to bring them narcotics to the prison, Banja Luka's daily Nezavisne novine reported Thursday citing the prison's authorities. The Deputy Director of the prison Josip Pojavnik confirmed that a couple of days ago the discovered the crime. All four convicts suspected of training the carrier-pigeons to smuggle narcotics, he said, were positive to heavy drugs. It is believed, as the prison's management said, that the well- trained pigeons were bringing heroin and cocaine into the prison, carrying specially designed small plastic bags attached to their legs. The management also said they did not suspect anything when they allowed the prisoners to make a pigeon-house and start grow the birds, as part of working therapy. The prison... [read full story]