A man returning from Cuba was arrested at Miami International Airport after he was found smuggling live birds in his underwear, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Alberto Hernandez Castillo was charged with smuggling goods into the United States.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, on Monday, Hernandez Castillo, who is a Cuban and a legal permanent resident of the U.S., arrived at MIA on Atlantic Flight 503 from Havana.<\/p>\n
A complaint said that Hernandez Castillo was picked for a second inspection by a U.S. Customs and Border Protections officer.<\/p>\n
During the inspection, Hernandez Castillo said he had one carry-on and one fanny pack, and was given a Customs Entry Form, which he answered no to all questions related to bringing any animals or wildlife into the U.S., the complaint said.<\/p>\n
When the officer searched Hernandez Castillo’s belongings, the complaint said, there was no contraband.<\/p>\n
When officers asked about his travel, they noticed that Hernandez Castillo had an unexplained bulge on the front of his waistband, and he appeared to get nervous, the complaint said.<\/p>\n
Officers then performed a pat-down and found that Hernandez Castillo was hiding six cylindrical clear plastic containers that were wrapped in tape and sewn into his underwear, the complaint said.<\/p>\n
After examining the tubes, the complaint said, each tube held live birds.<\/p>\n
Hernandez Castillo had a total of 10 birds that he hid in those tubes, and he claimed that they were for his “Personal use,” the complaint said.<\/p>\n
It was determined that Hernandez Castillo did not have the proper documents to import the birds, and he was arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man returning from Cuba was arrested at Miami International Airport after he was found smuggling live birds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1219,225,227,226],"class_list":["post-420585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}