Veterinarian Who Smuggled Liquid Heroin Implanted Inside Puppies Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison

[Judi Lynn]

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]

1. I know what I would LIKE to see happen to him.

[evilhime]

4. eye for an eye

Have the same implanted in him . . . weight equivalent. ARGH!!!!!!

[forgotmylogin]

10. Oh my god.

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]

2. 1 kilogram 35.27 oz

just over 4 cups.

grrr. He should not be allowed to have pets, ever.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Difficult years of HIS life? And, what kind of vet would he be?

[Bayard]

5. Asshole

No mercy!

[Evolve Dammit]

7. What a vile, disgusting soon to be vet???

Words escape me

[ploppy]

8. There's a special

place in hell for people like him.

[cp]

9. Go straight to Hell. Do not pass Go.

May you rot.

[ooky]

11. OMG.

I can't even think of words for this.

[MrScorpio]

12. My gawd

That’s diabolical.