Veterinarian Who Smuggled Liquid Heroin Implanted Inside Puppies Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison
Source: Time
By MELISSA CHAN
3:02 PM EST
A former Colombian veterinarian student who surgically implanted bags of liquid heroin into the bellies of living puppies before shipping them to the U.S. was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison.
Andres Lopez Elorez, 39, nervously fiddled with the back of his light olive green jumpsuit in federal court in Brooklyn as he asked U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson for leniency for the crimes he said he did during a dark chapter in his life.
Be merciful to me, he said, through a translator. Those were very difficult years of my life.
Prosecutors said Lopez Elorez smuggled at least one kilogram of heroin from Colombia to the U.S. through the puppies that he raised on a secret farm, between 2004 and 2005, while he was studying to be a veterinarian. The drugs were surgically removed from the puppies once they arrived. Several of the animals died after the surgeries.
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niyad
(113,526 posts)Have the same implanted in him . . . weight equivalent. ARGH!!!!!!
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)If you've ever seen the movie Maria, Full of Grace this is terrifying. Human drug mules who swallow (hopefully) sealed capsules of drugs to get through customs are taking their lives in their own hands. I remember a scene where someone has a capsule break in their stomach and is dead or near death from an overdose just gets opened up in a hotel bathtub to get the remaining stash and left there. There is no consideration of getting them medical treatment due to the illegality of the situation.
Humans who do this are at least being paid. Poor dogs.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)just over 4 cups.
grrr. He should not be allowed to have pets, ever.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Bayard
(22,128 posts)No mercy!
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Evolve Dammit
(16,757 posts)Words escape me
ploppy
(2,162 posts)place in hell for people like him.
cp
(6,652 posts)May you rot.
I can't even think of words for this.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Thats diabolical.