Feline Felon Caught Smuggling Escape Tools Into Brazilian Prison

Taking "cat burglar" to a whole new level.

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In this photo taken with a cell phone early Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, and released by Brazil's General Superintendency of Prisons of Alagoas (SGAP), guards hold a cat that has items taped to its body at a medium-security prison in Arapiraca, in Alagoas state, Brazil. A prison official says they caught the cat slipping through a prison gate with a cell phone, drills, small saws and other contraband taped to its body.

Prison guards in northeast Brazil foiled a jailbreak attempt by apprehending a cat co-conspirator.

Officers at the Arapiraca city prison spotted the black and white feline entering the compound with drills, saw blades, batteries and a cell phone taped to its body. The materials were to be used by inmates to dig an escape tunnel, according to a statement released Saturday by the Alagoas state prison administration. The animal has been turned turned over to Animal Control for the length of the investigation.

Sky News reports that all 263 prisoners are suspects in the escape attempt, although authorities admit, "It will be hard to discover who is responsible since the cat does not speak.”

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