Me-ouch! Hello Kitty Deals Drugs

A jailed Columbian drug lord has allegedly been using digitally encoded email images of Hello Kitty to smuggle out messages to his followers.

Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who is being held in Brazil, allegedly chose the Japanese icon because his wife is a big fan of the cartoon.

Police seized the accused drug dealers computer and assumed he just wasn't the cutesy kitty type. Read more strange drug news.

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