Colombian Cartel Slaps a Huge Bounty On Police Dog

The Colombian drug cartels respond ruthlessly to all those who get in the way of their trade.

Whether that be man, woman or dog.

TMZ reports that the Urabeños drug gang, which are now the dominant criminal force in Colombia, have put a $70,000 bounty on the head of a police dog named Sombra [Shadow] because the pooch's expert nose is costing them much, much more than that.

Sombra recently sniffed out ten tons of coke in two separate busts and over her six-year career she's been behind 245 arrests.

Sombra had been working Colombia's port cities.  But South American nation's authorities have responded to the threat against their star canine by assigning her to the Bogota airport -- which is inland and outside of Urabeños's reach.

The $70,000 bounty on Sombra is particularly eye-catching because the cartel usually only pays a couple hundred bucks for humans they want gone.