Agata is a female yellow
Labrador Retriever drug detection dog
A detection dog or sniffer dog is a dog that is trained to use its senses to detect substances such as explosives, illegal drugs, wildlife scat, currency, blood, and contraband electronics such as illicit mobile phones. The sense most used by d ...
who works at
Leticia, Colombia
Leticia () is the southernmost city in the Republic of Colombia, capital of the department of Amazonas, Colombia's southernmost town (4.09° south 69.57° west) and one of the major ports on the Amazon river. It has an elevation of 96 meters (3 ...
. In 2004, Colombian
drug baron
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s placed a $10,000
bounty
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* Bounty (reward), an amount of money or other reward offered by an organization for a specific task done with a person or thing
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* Bounty, Saskatchewan, a g ...
on her head, resulting in the dog and her handler being assigned a bodyguard and her food being monitored for poison.
The bounty was the result of her superior skills at drug detection, having stopped more than three hundred kilos of
cocaine
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, worth more than seven million dollars, and twenty kilos of heroin.
She was decorated for her work.
See also
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List of individual dogs
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Actors
Advertising
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Individual dogs
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