U.S. Indicts Exotic Bird Dealer for ?Going Out on the Limb?

On December 7, 1993, the United States Department of Justice announced the indictment of a commercial bird importer in Miami for illegally smuggling nearly 2,000 African grey parrots, prized as pets and worth up to $1,000 apiece, into the U.S. from Africa. The indictment charges the owner with conspiring to illegally smuggle African grey parrots into the U.S. and to defraud the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by filing false importation documents on seven different shipments of parrots?[more]