Vet who stitched packets of liquid heroin into puppies' stomachs to smuggle drugs sentenced to 6 years in prison
A 39-year-old veterinarian student, who surgically implanted liquid heroin in puppies for Colombian drug traffickers, has been sentenced to six years in prison on Thursday. Andres Lopez Elorez's sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Richard P. Donoghue and other law enforcement officials in Brooklyn after he pleaded guilty of conspiring to import heroin into the United States in September.
Elorez reportedly participated in a scheme that turned dogs into drug couriers by stitching packets of the drug into their stomachs. According to reports, out of at least nine of such procedures he performed, three of the animals died after contracting viruses.
ANIMAL CRUELTY
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Andres Lopez Elorez, a Colombian veterinarian, appeared in court in Brooklyn accused of cruel surgery to turn puppies into drugs mules. He is alleged to have implanted liquid heroin in puppies who were then flown to the US & killed. pic.twitter.com/dVMcpLGHwa