Man caught smuggling 18 monkeys in his clothes
A man stopped at an airport in Mexico with a suspicious bulge in his clothes was found to be carrying 18 tiny monkeys in a girdle under his t-shirt.
A baby titi monkey, not being smuggled under someone's t-shirt
38-year-old Roberto Cabrera arrived at Mexico City's international airport on a commercial flight from Lima, Peru, on Friday when authorities noticed the bulge and conducted a body search, the Public Safety Department said in a statement on Monday.
They say that Cabrera was carrying the 6-inch baby titi monkeys in pouches attached to the girdle. Two of the monkeys were dead.
Cabrera was arrested on charges of trafficking an endangered species.
Cabrera told authorities he had been carrying the monkeys in a suitcase, but decided to put them in his girdle instead 'so the X-rays wouldn't hurt them.'
A man stopped at an airport in Mexico with a suspicious bulge in his clothes was found to be carrying 18 tiny monkeys in a girdle under his t-shirt.
38-year-old Roberto Cabrera arrived at Mexico City's international airport on a commercial flight from Lima, Peru, on Friday when authorities noticed the bulge and conducted a body search, the Public Safety Department said in a statement on Monday.
They say that Cabrera was carrying the 6-inch baby titi monkeys in pouches attached to the girdle. Two of the monkeys were dead.
Cabrera was arrested on charges of trafficking an endangered species.
Cabrera told authorities he had been carrying the monkeys in a suitcase, but decided to put them in his girdle instead 'so the X-rays wouldn't hurt them.'