3 charged with monkey smuggling in Spokane-WA

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_monkey_smuggling.html

3 charged with monkey smuggling in Spokane
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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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crazywolf · Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 7

hmmmm
its interesting how everything is happening so close to home lately.
ah well ill be moving to alabama soon