Pigeon drug smuggling ring busted in Bosnia

It is often said that pigeons are the crime masterminds of the animal world - and there has certainly been no shortage of pigeon crime reported by Animal News (see here).

In the latest twist of this feathered crime wave, a pigeon drug baron is now behind bars after being caught smuggling heroin into a Bosnian prison.

The Brisbane Times quotes Zenica prison official Josip Pojavnik:

"The guards suspected the animal might be involved in drug smuggling once they noticed four prisoners visibly intoxicated shortly after the pigeon landed on a prison window... We do not know what to do with the pigeon, but for the time being it will remain behind bars."

The drugs are suspected to originate in the town Tuzla, a location some 70 km from Zenica prison. But with the suspected pigeon offender behind bars, it would seem that animal crime really doesn't pay.