[monkeywire] 3 charged with monkey smuggling in Spokane
carrie mclaren
brooklynite282 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 13:32:58 EDT 2008
3 charged with monkey smuggling in Spokane
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_monkey_smuggling.html
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 8, 2008
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A Spokane couple and a woman from Northport, Wash.,
have been charged with smuggling a young rhesus macaque monkey into
the United States from Asia.
Gypsy Lawson, 27, her boyfriend, James Edward Pratt, 33, and her
mother, Fran Ogren, 55, are scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court
in Spokane on March 20.
Lawson told The Spokesman Review newspaper she bought the monkey for
several hundred dollars from someone in southern California. She says
she didn't get the monkey in Thailand, as court documents say.
Lawson calls the infant monkey "Apoo," which she says means
"grandfather." The monkey was taken from her when federal agents
searched her home in January.
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