The Washington Post, May 14th, 1994
The federal courthouse here has been the scene of many a bizarre case, but few compare with the trial of a Mexican zoo director charged with smuggling a gorilla who was actually a federal agent dressed in a monkey suit. The critical moment in the sting operation came when the director allegedly mistook the agent, sitting in a cage amid a pile of authentic gorilla manure, for a real primate, according to testimony in court this week. "It was a one-in-a-million bust," said Jorge Picon, senior agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service here, who went undercover posing as a Miami mafioso trying...
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