It was far from the faulty crime.
Authorities said a soft-spoken cat was caught by a drug addict while smuggling drugs into a Panama prison.
The perpetrator carried the smuggler in a bag tied around his neck when it was stopped outside the Nueva Esperanza prison in Colon province on Friday, AFP reported.
“The animal had a cloth tied around its neck” containing packaged white powder, leaves and ‘vegetable material’, “said Andres Gutierrez, head of the Panamanian criminal justice system.
According to another official, the substances were probably cocaine and marijuana.
Local prosecutors said they were investigating the use of animals for the smuggling of illegal drugs into the Nueva Esperanza facility, which houses more than 1,700 prisoners.
Meanwhile, the criminal cat in question will be taken to a pet adoption center, prosecutors said.
This is not the first time that prisoners in the Central American country have been used as drug addicts.
Authorities have previously intercepted drug deliveries by visiting pigeons and even drones.