PASADENA, TX (KTRK) -- They're not your usual religious icons.
Pasadena police say they found statues of the so-called "narco-saint" in a drug bust.
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Officers found cocaine, marijuana and other drugs at a home on Windsor and Burke streets last month. They also found two large statues of Jesus Malverde.
Drug traffickers often set up the statues as shrines to ask for protection.
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In Mexican folklore, Malverde was a bandit and Robin Hood-like figure who stole from the rich and gave to the poor.