Airport Customs Officials in FL Catch Flyer Traveling With a Wing and a Prayer

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Some individuals like to state that they do things, as the old stating goes, on a wing and a prayer. When Alberto Hernandez Castillo flew from Cuba to Miami International Airport, Customs authorities found that Castillo took that old stating actually, with one caution: The wings were in his trousers.

These were, one may state, poultry in movement

WILD FIND: CBP officers at Miami International Airport found 10 live birds concealed inside a tourist’s underclothing after seeing an “unexplained bulge” around his waist and pelvic location throughout a customizeds assessment. Alberto Hernandez Castillo got here on a flight from Havana, Cuba, and had actually signed a customizeds statement specifying he was not bringing animals or wildlife into the U.S. Officers discovered 6 clear round containers covered in tape and tucked inside black pockets stitch into his underclothing, holding 8 yellow-faced grassquits and 2 blue grosbeaks. Complete story here https://t.co/wh7EwLawui– Fox News Lifestyle (@FoxNewsLife) October 7, 2026

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WILD FIND: CBP officers at Miami International Airport found 10 live birds concealed inside a tourist’s underclothing after observing an “unexplained bulge” around his waist and pelvic location throughout a customizeds examination.

Alberto Hernandez Castillo got here on a flight from Havana, Cuba, and had actually signed a customizeds statement mentioning he was not bringing animals or wildlife into the U.S. Officers discovered 6 clear round containers covered in tape and tucked inside black pockets stitch into his underclothing, holding 8 yellow-faced grassquits and 2 blue grosbeaks.

Well, isn’t that intriguing. That should have come as an un-pheasantsurprise for the CBP officers. For the birds, they handled to make it through the journey, and when you consider they were taking a trip in this guy’s trousers, that’s an impressive achievement, even if he didn’t egg-xactly make the entire journey.

Here’s the entire story.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Miami International Airport found what court files referred to as an “unexplained bulge” around a traveler’s waist and pelvic location after he got here on a flight from Havana, Cuba, according to a federal problem acquired by Fox News Digital.

A closer examination supposedly exposed 10 live birds hidden underneath the tourist’s clothes, the grievance stated.

Alberto Hernandez Castillo, a local of Cuba and legal long-term local of the United States, shown up in Miami Oct. 4.

CBP officers chose him for a secondary evaluation.

I will not hypothesize about whether it’s a regular practice for CBP to examine “unexplained bulges” in tourist’s “waist and pelvic area,” We can think of that in a lot of cases it’s a less enjoyable part of a tough task.

Here’s the onion:

When questioned about the birds, Castillo presumably informed authorities they were for his “personal use.”

He later on invoked his right to stay quiet, according to the problem.

Individual usage? These are little birds; even if you’re not skilled in ornithology, you can think of that they would always be little songbirds. It simply would not do to attempt packing a chicken in one’s trousers. To what usage could Castillo put these birds? They appear too little to consume. Was he intending on keeping them as cage birds? To offer them? Well, he is exercising his right to stay quiet, so those responses will need to wait till he begins to singWe’ll be heron about it. Naturally, the district attorneys might need to pry it out of him with a crow bar.

Seriously, this guy needs to be dealing with not just smuggling however animal ruthlessness charges. It’s impressive that these birds endured this journey, sealed in plastic tubes without any food or water, and it makes one marvel, the number of times has Alberto Castillo done this before? And did he get away with it? If so, what took place to the birds?

In any case, he got captured this time, and these 10 birds are safe. You wing some, you lose some.

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