Two people have been arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle three baby monkeys from Colombia to the Dominican Republic, according to police.
Colombia – two people arrested They allegedly tried to smuggle three baby monkeys into the Dominican Republic, police said.
On May 13, two people were intercepted at the Rafael Núñez International Airport in Cartagena, Colombia, for trying to “trafficking” monkeys from Colombia to the Dominican Republic, the Cartagena Police Department said. Police said the monkey was in “private parts”.
Authorities have not released the identities of the two men, but police Posted a photo on social media Two police officers, a man and a woman, their faces blurred, stood in front of the little monkey.
The three baby monkeys are about one month old, according to Cartagena’s environmental public agency.
“One of them, a brown spider monkey, was found hidden in a man’s genitals,” they wrote in a report. Video translated from Spanish. “Two other white-faced monkeys were held by a woman hiding one in each bra.”
One monkey died, according to rescuers, who suspected it suffocated inside its clothes. American Sun.
“The conditions in which this animal died can only be described as inhumane,” Brigadier General Guelfo Yesid Pena Arak told The American Sun.
Two others are now in the care of the EPA but are suffering from “dehydration, weakness and minimal life-threatening injuries,” officials said.
No other information is available, including the current condition of the surviving monkeys.
