Monkey smuggler arrested

  

A man has been stopped at an airport in Mexico for carrying 18 small monkeys in a girdle under his t-shirt.

Roberto Cabrera arrived at Mexico City's international airport on a commercial flight from Lima, Peru, but authorities noticed a suspicious bulge in his clothes and conducted a body search, the Public Safety Department said in a statement.
They say that Cabrera, 38, was carrying the six-inch baby titi monkeys in pouches attached to the girdle. Two of the monkeys were dead, reports the Metro.
Cabrera, who was arrested on charges of trafficking an endangered species, told authorities he had been carrying the monkeys in a suitcase, but decided to put them in his girdle instead 'so the X-rays wouldn't hurt them'.