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It is the story of a bitch anti-narcotic with a price on its head . It is " Sombra ", German Shepherd 6 years old who helped the Colombian Police to detect more than 2 thousand kilos cocaine hidden in suitcases, boats and large cargoes of fruit.
But as the dog sniffs its way to a record of seized it also became the most recent target of cartel the most powerful of Colombia .
The Colombian Police recently revealed that the Clan del Golfo a cartel which has its own guerrilla army offered a reward of 7 thousand dollars who kills or captures the right arm
After the threat, the agents moved Sombra from a busy port on the Caribbean coast of Colombia to the capital, where he now uses his extraordinary talent to sniff suspicious parcels at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá .
At the end of his six-hour day, Sombra is transported in a van with armored windows to his kennel. . She is usually escorted by two armed guards
"We must take care of her safety," said the agent José Rojas the 25-year-old guardian of " Sombra ". The investigations of " Sombra " are more necessary than ever since the Colombian police fights against the growing production of cocaine which tests traditionally close relations with United States . A recent White House report found that the amount of land where farmers and drug traffickers cultivate the plant used to produce cocaine increased by 11 percent in 2017, despite the $ 10 billion allocated to the anti-oil campaign. -drug.
"The message of President Trump to Colombia is clear: record growth in cocaine production must be reversed," warned Jim Carroll, deputy director of the US Drug Control Office .
Colombia's elected president Iván Duque promises a harsher strategy to accelerate eradication with measures that would include aerial spraying and the use of drones. But even with advanced technology, experts say that ground research, like that conducted by " Sombra ", is indispensable.
Some of the recent exploits of Sombra include the discovery of more than five tons of cocaine del Clan del Golfo destined for Europe and hidden in banana crates. Officers also gave credit to his incredible nose for more than 245 arrests related to drugs in two of the largest airports in Colombia .
"Your nose excelled above Rojas
The drug cartels as the Gulf Clan took note of their abilities.
After learning that they had ] put a price on the head of Sombra the director of the Colombian National Police ordered transferred to his new post earlier this year, according to local media. Investigators discovered the threat against Sombra through an intercepted appeal
"Shadow is a German shepherd who became the terror of criminal organizations ," said a recent article in El Espectador. Sombra gets up at six in the morning and is removed from his kennel to work at the airport of El Dorado to inspect the packages and the cargo. With his neon protective vest, his pointy ears and his half-open mouth, he looks more like a beloved pet than an experienced police dog .
Since his transfer in January Shadow has sniffed out thousands of pounds of cocaine, helping their caregivers find the drugs hidden in shoe boxes and wooden necklaces. A few months ago, the stubborn dog was also sniffing 77 kilos of cocaine placed in the bottom of an industrial machine
The work is risky: the Colombian National Police calculates that she has lost at least 800 thousand. agents in the last two decades and several dogs in the war on drugs. Some agents were killed by gunmen under the orders of drug traffickers, while others died in attacks such as bombings in police stations. Several canines died while they were helping the agents to eradicate the cocaine crops.
The victories of Sombra made her a kind of media darling and, by jogging around the airport of Bogotá with her help -significant, some followers occasionally stop for a selfie.
Rojas said that the attention he receives has not affected Shadow. "It is much easier to work with her because she is more comfortable with the orders I give her, and on top of that, he is more playful than the others," he said.
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