What The Flock?!?
Huge-Bulge Border Bust …
Man Nabbed Packing Parakeets in Pants!!!
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I peck your pardon?! A person is staring down 20 years within the slammer after a suspiciously enormous bulge in his pants — which he claimed was his mighty man-meat — turned out to be … TWO. ACTUAL. BIRDS. Sure, that is actual life!
Jesse Agus Martinez, 35, bought stopped by CBP on the Mexico-U.S. border on October 23 after guards clocked a very questionable bulge in his trousers … and once they checked it out, they discovered two little brown baggage stuffed in his underwear — every holding a uncommon orange-fronted parakeet.
The parakeets — that are critically endangered, in accordance with the Worldwide Union for the Conservation of Nature — have been respiration however closely sedated, in accordance with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in Southern California.
Martinez informed brokers he stuffed the birds in his pants as a result of he didn’t have the paperwork to deliver them into the U.S. … and stated he deliberate to maintain them in a shoebox in his van.
He’s now been hit with a federal smuggling cost … and if he’s discovered responsible, he could possibly be slapped with a $250K nice and as much as 20 years in jail.
As for the birds, vets handled them and put them in quarantine — they’re stated to be steady now🙏. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is formally investigating the case.
