He squawked! Lorenzo the lookout parrot becomes a jailbird after he's arrested for warning drug cartel that police were on the way



Lorenzo the parrot is facing life behind bars in Colombia after being caught squawking on the police for a drug cartel.

Every time a police officer came close to the traffickers’ headquarters, the bird was trained to scream in Spanish: ‘Run, run, the cat is going to get you!’

Police trying to shut down gangs behind the lucrative drug route to the U.S. couldn’t work out at first how they launched raids only to find that the birds had flown the coop.

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Behind bars: Lorenzo the lookout parrot, who was tried to say: 'Run, run, the cat is going to get you!' every time police came near a drug cartel's hideout

I know why the caged bird sings: Lorenzo is now facing a life behind bars... but fortunately he is already used to that

But detectives finally got wise to the parrot. They sneaked past the loud-beaked lookout to find a hidden stash of weapons and marijuana at a safe house in Barranquilla.

Police also found two more specially-trained parrots.

‘We found a very interesting situation when we confiscated some exotic birds,’ said one Columbian police officer.

'Among them we have a parrot that alerted the people by saying run, run so they would run away before we could arrive.’

Animal officials said police had handed over as many as 1,000 parrots, many from the same coastal region, that had been taught to act as lookouts.

Baranquilla is Columbia's fourth largest city after the capital Bogota, Medellin and Cali as well as the most populated city on the country's Atlantic coast.

See video of Lorenzo here





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