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  • From: "carrie mclaren" <brooklynite282 AT gmail.com>
  • To: monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [monkeywire] 3 charged with monkey smuggling in Spokane
  • Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:32:58 -0400

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.



  • [monkeywire] 3 charged with monkey smuggling in Spokane, carrie mclaren, 03/09/2008

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