Outrageous second cop in Grinch costume leads drug bust in Peru
It’s the Grinch who took out a group of alleged drug dealers in Peru.
A cop dressed in a head-to-toe Grinch costume led a drug bust in Lima that resulted in the arrest of three siblings, including the alleged drug ring’s leader.
A video from Peru’s national police showed the agent prancing around as the famous Dr. Seuss character – before taking a sledgehammer to the door of the alleged dealers’ hideout.
The agent, whose identity was withheld, delivered two blows to bust down the door as he and his partners rushed inside.
The officers arrested the suspects without incident and seized a cache of cocaine and marijuana.
Authorities also confiscated several scales and grinders.
Peru Police Colonel Carlos López said the alleged dealers, Norca Espinoza and Fidel Espinoza, were led by Eva Espinoza, and peddled drugs throughout resorts in the southern end of the country’s capital.
‘On this occasion, for the Christmas holidays, using the ingenuity and cunning of the Terna Group, we used the Grinch,’ he said.
‘This is a good Grinch who likes Christmas but is an enemy of criminals, those who harm society.’
López revealed that Espinoza, who is known as ‘The Queen of the South,’ had been arrested three other times.
She planned to acquire five kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride that would flood the nightclubs of the southern resorts with drugs.
A Peruvian cop dressed as a Grinch places one of the three suspects under arrest after leading the charge into their hideout in Lima
A cop dressed as the Grinch is joined by another police officer in escorting one of three siblings who formed part of a gang that sold cocaine and marijuana throughout resorts in the southern end of Lima
A cop dressed as a Grinch posses next to the three drug gang suspects who were arrested Tuesday in Lima, the capital of Peru
Her most recent arrest came in August in the coastal district of Punta Negra when cops apprehended her and two other people on drug dealing charges and confiscated more than 900 packages of cocaine.
The second took place in February at the same residence where the latest arrest occurred.
Police also arrested three men and recovered 1,000 packages if cocaine and one package filled with 60 grams of Type-A drug.
Espinoza was also arrested with three other people during an April 2023 operation in which agents seized cocaine.
