While tensions between Canada and the United States have risen in the last few years as Donald Trump has made threats to turn his northern neighbor into a 51st state of America, there has been some mutual cooperation in crime fighting.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Clutch the Bald Eagle and Maple the Moose \u2013 the mascots for the United States and Canada respectively at this year\u2019s World Cup \u2013 helped Peruvian police in a drugs raid<\/a>.<\/p>\n Officers in Lima dressed as the mascots broke through a gate before arresting a suspect.<\/p>\n Allow Instagram content?<\/p>\n This article includes content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click ‘Allow and continue’.<\/p>\n \u201cThanks to the intelligence work carried out by the team, we were able to establish that the person we were about to arrest was a die-hard football fan, living and breathing the World Cup<\/a> fever,\u201d colonel Carlos Fredy Alc\u00e1ntara Obreg\u00f3n, head of the police\u2019s Green Squad, told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we proceeded to disguise my Green Squad personnel as World Cup mascots in order to approach him without arousing suspicion and make the arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n Clutch and Maple would appear to be the perfect candidates for the drugs raid, even though they are fictional characters and do not have visas to work in Peru. According to Fifa<\/a>, Clutch \u201cleads by action \u2013 rallying teammates, lifting spirits and turning every challenge into an opportunity to rise higher\u201d making him an ideal leader in high-pressure situations such as drug raids. Maple, meanwhile, is \u201ca street style-loving artist\u201d meaning the moose can blend effortlessly into Lima\u2019s demi-monde.<\/p>\n The other World Cup mascot, Zayu the Jaguar, doesn\u2019t work Wednesdays, so was unavailable for the raid.<\/p>\n