A man was charged with smuggling after Customs and Border Protection officers at the U.S.-Mexico border noticed a suspicious bulge in his pants — only to learn he had two parakeets hidden in his underwear.
Jesse Agus Martinez, a 35-year-old U.S. citizen living in Tijuana, Mexico, was indicted Friday after authorities said he tried to smuggle two heavily sedated orange-fronted parakeets – a protected species – into the United States late last month, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of California said.
