Abstract
"FORTY-SEVEN PARROTS WITH A
RETAIL VALUE OF . 50,000 SEIZED.
U.S. Customs agents seized 47 rare and
exotic parrots with a retail mlue of
, 50,000 in Mission Hills, Calif yesterdal'
and arrested four men, according to
Kenneth Aschim. Special Agent in
chmge of I he Los Angeles Customs
office of im•esrigations.
Tlze parrots were smuggled inside sel'eral
wooden chests and were part of a
shipment of ten race horses which m-riJ ·ed
in San Francisco by Air Freight .ff"om
Sydney, Australia.