Avengers assemble in Peru with cops dressed as superheroes to arrest drug dealers

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The drug dealers, taken by surprise, at first thought it was a Halloween joke, according to police.

Police seized 3,250 small packages of basic cocaine paste as well as 287 bags of cocaine and 127 of marijuana.Police seized 3,250 small packages of basic cocaine paste and 287 bags of cocaine, and 127 marijuana.Four of The Avengers swooped into a dangerous Lima neighbourhood over the weekend when Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor and the Black Widow broke down a door and arrested several wanted drug dealers.

The four "superheroes" were, in fact, members of a special Peruvian police squad pretending to be promoting a Halloween concert, the police said in a statement on Tuesday. The operation, dubbed "Marvel" after the comic book publisher of The Avengers, saw four officers dressed as superheroes walk nonchalantly down a street in the San Juan de Lurigancho neighbourhood of Lima on Saturday.The four "superheroes" were members of a special Peruvian police squad pretending to be promoting a Halloween concert.

Police seized 3,250 small packages of basic cocaine paste — a crude extract of coca leaf — as well as 287 bags of cocaine and 127 of marijuana. One kilo of cocaine paste sells for roughly U$380 in Peru, while a kilo of cocaine hydrochloride, the purest form, sells for about $1,000.

 

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