Bad, bad kitty!

[tikistitch]

Hello Kitty was drug lord's messenger

HELLO Kitty, the Japanese cartoon figure popular with teenagers around the world, was used by a notorious Colombian drug lord to hide messenges to his minions.

Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, who is being held in Brazil after his arrest in August, hid voice and text messages digitally encoded into emailed images of the innocent feline, Brazilian police told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.

Investigators say the disguised missives, hundreds of which were found on Abadia's computer, could put the narcotics kingpin up to his neck in Kitty litter as some of them allegedly detail cocaine shipments between countries.

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Abadia apparently picked Hello Kitty as his courier because his wife was a big fan of the Japanese icon - she had even decorated one of her rooms in a Brazilian house with Hello Kitty-themed chairs, watches and wallpaper.