Buenos Aires · Beagle
Ex-Red Brigades member hides ankle tag in pork – a beagle would have found it in seconds
Der Hündeler, Edition of Thursday, 12 November 2026 (edition 2)
What happened
A 74-year-old former member of Italy’s Red Brigades has escaped from house arrest in Argentina, the country’s security ministry confirmed on Wednesday. Leonardo Bertulazzi reportedly hid his ankle monitor inside a tube of pork and used a harness to lower himself from a fifth-floor balcony. He had been under house arrest in Buenos Aires since 2024, awaiting extradition to Italy to serve a 27-year prison sentence handed down in 1987.
What does this mean for your Beagle?
The beagle works at several airports as a detection dog for smuggled food, with cured meats very much on the list. To a beagle, a tube of pork is not a hiding place but a set of directions. The ankle monitor would have been inspected briefly and discarded: electronics do not smell of supper. Being a pack hound, he would then have bayed about his discovery until the entire fifth floor was informed. He also has reservations about the harness. A beagle in a harness travels strictly horizontally, nose to the ground, towards the nearest butcher.
What you can do now: Never store meat below table height. Take your beagle shopping as quality control, on a short lead.