Costa Rica police seize 5 capybaras, crack cocaine and marijuana from fleeing vehicle
Costa Rican police seized five capybaras, crack cocaine and marijuana after chasing down a fleeing vehicle on a highway along the Central American country's Pacific coast on Thursday. The large rodents, not native to Costa Rica, are a semi-aquatic South American relative of the guinea pig and happen to be having a moment on social platforms and possessing, transporting or trafficking them is illegal.
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