{"id":422677,"date":"2026-10-08T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422677\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:54:09","slug":"2nd-man-accused-of-trying-to-smuggle-birds-arrested-at-mia-this-week-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422677\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd man accused of trying to smuggle birds arrested at MIA this week \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second time this week<\/a>, a man has been arrested at Miami International Airport while trying to smuggle birds into the U.S. from Cuba, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Roberto Perez Quincosa was taken into custody at MIA on Tuesday after arriving on a flight from Havana, an arrest affidavit said.<\/p>\n

According to the affidavit, U.S. Customs and Border Protection searched Perez Quincosa’s luggage and found nothing, but when they performed a pat-down they found 11 hair roller tubes containing live birds.<\/p>\n

The tubes had holes along the length and were capped with netting-like material then bundled with black electrical tape.<\/p>\n

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The birds authorities said were found on Roberto Perez Quincosa at MIA.<\/p>\n

They included 5 Cuban Bullfinches and 6 Cuban Melodious finches.<\/p>\n

According to the affidavit, Perez Quincosa told investigators he intended to breed and sell the birds in the U.S. for $100 to $120 each.<\/p>\n

Perez Quincosa, who’s a native of Cuba but a lawful resident of the U.S., is charged with smuggling goods into the United States.<\/p>\n

It’s the second arrest at the airport this week of a man arriving from Cuba who was found with birds hidden under his clothes.<\/p>\n

On Monday, 40-year-old Alberto Hernandez Castillo was found with 10 birds that were inside plastic containers that were sewn into his underwear, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Hernandez Castillo is facing similar charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second time this week, a man has been arrested at Miami International Airport while trying to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-422677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422677","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=422677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}