A Guyanese man living in Connecticut man tried smuggling nearly three dozen live finches from Guyana through JFK Airport so he could sell them for use in high-stakes bird-singing competitions in New York, according to the New York Post citing federal officials yesterday.
The report said that Francis Gurahoo, 39, was arrested on Sunday after he flew into the Queens airport aboard Caribbean Airlines flight BW 526 from Georgetown, Guyana.
The reports said that US Customs and Border Protection officials found 34 live finches, each hidden inside a plastic hair-curler, inside of Gurahoo’s carry-on when he was selected for a customs examination, according to a criminal complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court yesterday.
