A Peruvian police squad last week used an agent dressed as Father Christmas to conduct an undercover operation in an unsafe neighbourhood outside Lima and bust a drug ring.
The operation led to the arrest of two men selling forms of cocaine and marijuana in a house in Huaral, near the Peruvian capital. Colonel Walter Palomino, head of the National Police Green Squadron said that agents “disguised themselves as Santa Claus to go unnoticed in this dangerous neighborhood.”
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‘Strategy was successful’
“The strategy was successful. Christmas came to the Evil Reindeer,” he said, using a seasonal nickname for the illicit gang, according to AFP. An officer disguised as the white-bearded figure from the North Pole broke down a house door with a large sledgehammer and arrested one of the suspects.
Santa and his helpers arrested two men and seized hundreds of packets of cocaine paste and marijuana, according to police. One of those captured was presented to the press under an alias: “The Grinch,” after a fictional character created by US children’s author Dr. Seuss. This is not the first time that police in the South American nation have used disguise during anti-drug operations launched on special dates.
On October 31, police used the occasion of Halloween to dress up as horror characters and arrested two alleged members of a drug gang. Last year before Christmas, police in Lima dressed as Santa and his elves conducted a similar operation, arresting four suspects and seizing 6,000 packets of cocaine paste.
(With agency inputs)
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