Parrot arrested after warning drug dealers about police raid

Parrot taken into custody after alerting drug dealers of cops

A loyal loudmouth parrot has been taken into custody in the northern Brazilian state of Piaui after warning drug traffickers of police presence.

The green-feathered watchdog had been taught to call out every time police officer went near the traffickers’ house by squawking loud “Mamãe, polícia!” or “Mama, police!”

"He must have been trained for this. As soon as the police got close he started shouting," a police officer involved in the botched operation said.

According to the Guardian, the parrot, who was placed in a chicken wire cage at the police station, did not say anything.

A local vet Alexandre Clark also confirmed that the Brazilian authorities were less successful in extracting information from parrot.

"Lots of police officers have come by and so far it hasn’t made a sound," the veterinarian said.

He was reportedly handed over to a local zoo where it will spend three months learning to fly before being released back into the wild.

This was not the first time that birds have been used in drug trade.

The “drug pigeon” caught inside a prison in Costa Rica. 

In 2015, drug traffickers used a pigeon to fly drugs into Costa Rica prison.

Inside a small pouch tied to its breast were 14 grams of cocaine and a smaller amount of marijuana destined for one of the inmates

Prison officials said the drugs were destined for use by an inmate who may have trained the pigeon to act as a courier.