POLISH POLICE FIND MAN, PARROTS IN LUGGAGE
United Press International
Dec 3 2007
WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 3 (UPI) — Polish police found a 38-year-old
Armenian man trying to illegally enter the country by hiding in a
woman’s luggage.
Police said the man was inside a suitcase on a Kiev-to-Berlin passenger
train, Polish radio said Monday.
The luggage belonged to a 50-year-old Ukrainian woman.
The man, who was arrested, had forged documents including a card with
a false name, police said.
In another border incident, a Ukrainian man was arrested Sunday
when he tried to to smuggle 65 parrots into Poland, also in luggage,
a radio report said.
The parrots were of a protected species and the man did not have the
documents required to transport them. The birds were sent to a zoo
in Warsaw.