ROMULUS, Mich. (FOX 2) - 52 pounds of monkey meat were found in someone’s luggage at Detroit Metro Airport and that was not the end of it.
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Monkey meat was smuggled into someone’s luggage at Detroit Metro, and it was the second bust of so-called ‘bushmeat’ recently.
First, 11 pounds of rodent meat were found in the bags of a passenger coming from Togo in West Africa.
Meanwhile, Customs and Border Protection uncovered 52 pounds of primate meat. The monkey meat came from Central Africa, possibly from the sun-tailed monkey.
Border Protection says primate seizures are very rare.
The rodent packer and monkey meat smuggler were slapped with a $300 fine. The not-so-funny part is that this kind of bushmeat has a serious risk of carrying communicable diseases, which can wr