Macedonia Police Arrests Smuggling Horse

Macedonian police took into custody a horse used by a crime ring to smuggle air conditioners from Serbia.

Border police spotted the horse and its carriage on Friday evening while it was entering Macedonia in the Maljocka Korija area, near the village of Sopot. Realizing there was no driver, they calmed down the animal and took it to the nearest police station.

Inside the carriage were nine air conditioners and other technical equipment worth several thousand euros, police said.

The police did not say whether it will press charges against the horse, which is now kept by the police station. Last year a wild bear was found guilty of stealing honey and destroying beehives that belonged to a Macedonian farmer, but because it belonged to a protected species, the fine had to be paid by the state.