Joy the dog was nervous; sniffed, scratched. At times he would look at the wooden bottom of the children's pen or pen, scratch himself, go and come back. These were enough signs for the technician José Delfín Pinatel Nordet, who has spent 13 years in the Canine Technique Section of the General Customs of the Republic (AGR), at the José Martí International Airport, in Havana. He knew something was wrong.
The borders had just opened to international flights, after the prolonged closure caused by the covid-19 pandemic.
José Delfín, short, shaved head, somewhat thick, comments: “We were in Terminal Two and when my colleagues decided to thoroughly check the wooden item that a passenger was trying to introduce, we found almost a camouflaged kilogram of two types of drugs: cocaine and methamphetamine.
The latter substance is a powerful, highly addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous system. It can come as a powder, in a pill, or as an oily liquid.
That was the first case, after the reopening; Only in 2023, this good-natured boy, who is also a veterinarian, detected five similar drug trafficking processes with his dogs, for which he received a medal from the AGR.
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