John Berry CT/90 07/06/1995 The whole lot of them should be publicly beheaded. Or maybe shoved into pvc pipes (like they did to the birds), and shipped around the world in cargo holds untill they die. -jb n article , [email protected] (the End) writes: +Here is a LONG note which came through on the Cities-L detailing +the allegations in the Silva parrot smuggling case. Keep in mind that +anyone can say anything about anyone else, and they will, as we see +here daily, and that a plastic bag is standard equipment in the Ford +Bronco. + +Note the recurrent phrase dead parrots. + + +Jim +J. Graham + +PS. If you follow-up to this, do not requote the whole message. :) + +__START___________________ + +From: [email protected] (Shirley Mc Greal, International Primate Protection League) +To: Multiple recipients of list +Subject: Parrot Smuggling + +I recently spent a day in the Federal Courthouse in Chicago studying the +file of case No. 94 CR 760, United States versus Tony Silva, Gila Daoud, +Hector Ugalde, and Gisela Caseres aka Ann Koopman. A second superseding +indictment in this case was filed in April 1995 charging Silva and his +mother with income tax violations in that they took cash payments for +wildlife and failed to report these payments as income. Claiming poverty, +Silva was able to obtain a public defender and so the US government is +paying for both sides of the case. Miami attorney Ben Kuehne, who +represented Matthew Block for much of the Bangkok Six orangutan case, +represents Ugaldes interests and a plea bargain was signed. Of special +interest was the affidavit in support of a search warrant prepared by +Special Agent Richard Marks of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Silvas +trial has been set for October 1995. + +Extracts from Marks affidavit follow: + +The information provided herein is derived from my own personal knowledge +and observations, the knowledge and observations of other agents, as well as +information received fromn individuals who have cooperated with the +government in its investigation into the alleged illegal smuggling +activities of: + +Tony Silva, also known as Antonio H. Silva +Gila Daoud +Horacio Cornejo +Larry Lafeber +Thomas Peterson +Ann Kauppman [sic], also known as Gisela Caseres +David Ibarra +Hector Ugalde +Antonio de Dios +Philip Morrison +Kathleen Harring, and +Rick Jordan... + +In December 1987, the former owner of Zoological Imports of Miami, Florida, +a major bird importation firm, was arrested for murder, RICO violations, and +narcotics trafficking. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to 100 +years in prison... + +In July 1989, the government interviewed this individual (hereinbafter +referred to as CI-1) regarding his involvement in the smuggling of exotic +and protected birds into the United States... + +CI-1 stated that to his knowledge, TONY SILVA, of the Chicago area, is the +largest smuggler of psittacine birds in the United States... + +CI-1 stated that from as early as 1986 until about December 1987, he +received approxinmately 400 psittacine birds from Tony Silva. These birds +included hyacinth macaws and an endangered species of mini macaw. + +The hyacinth macaw...demands a selling price generally between $6,000 and +$12,500. The habitat of the hyacinth macaw is southern Brazil and +westernmost Bolivia. The gvoernments of both Brazil and Bolivia have +prohibited the exportation of hyacinth macaw for commercial purposes. Brazil +has outlawed the exportation of this species for commercial purposes since +January 3 1967. Bolivia has done likewise since May 1, 1984. Thus the +hyacinth macaw is protected by law throughout its geographical range. + +The population of hyacinth macaws in the wild is decliming at a precipitous +rate due to the intensive trapping that continues for the international +exotic bird trade. According to experts in the field, this bird is likely to +become extinct within the next decade without continued protection... + +CI-1 told government agents that Silva informed him that the birds he was +getting for CI-1 had been smuggled into the United States from Brazil. Silva +further elaborated that the birds were flown into the country by private +pilots he had hired. CI-1 indicated that many of these birds were dead when +they arived in the Unoted States. + +CI-1 stated that in 1986, Silva delivered to him in Miami, Florida, two +golden lion marmosets, leontipithecus rosalia, and five other monkeys, +referred to as Black-handed marmosets by CI-1. (The name Black-handed +marmoset is a misnomer by traders in the wildlife trading community. The +true species to which CI-1 referred has not yet been identified by agents of +the USFWS). CI-1 stated that during his bird trading relationship with +Silva, he paid Silva approximately $100,000 in cash and business checks... + +[Another CI known as CI-2 emerged]. + +Silva told CI-2 that the illegal activities he and his mother were involved +in included constraining and concealing endangered birds in PVC tuning for +transport from foreign countries into the United States. Silva referred to +this method of smuggling as packaging... + +Silva also told CI-2 that he sometimes would force closed leg bands over +the feet and onto the legs of smuggled birds, to make them appear +captive-born... + +CI-2 states that there was a very large aviary located in the basement [of +Silvas home]. According to CI-2, between 1988 and 1990, the aviary +contained many species of exotic birds, many of which were rare and +protected, including but not limited to: hyacinth macaws: yellow-shouldered +Amazons Amazona barbadensis, and golden conures Aratinga guarouba. + +CI-2 states that although Silva was almost constantly on the telephone +engaged in bird sales during each of his visits, CI-2 never saw an evidence +that Silva was involved in any kind of recognised and licensed exotic bird +business. Silvas livelihood appeared to the CI to be derived almost +entirely from his activities associated with the buying and selling of +exotic birds... + +In 1988...Silva invited CI-2 into his home. Silva showed CI-2 severa balls +of resin-like glue. Silva told CI-2 that this glue had been extracted from a +certain species of tree. Silva explained to CI-2 that this glue was used in +South America for the express purpose of trapping hyacinth macaws...Silva +also showed CI-2 several photographs of rare psittacine birds that he said +had been altered with dyes to look like other species of birds... + +In or around September 1989, Gola Daoud asked CI-2 to come to her house in +North Riverside, Illinois. She wanted him to help her look through Tony +Silvas files for records pertaining to an outbreak of Wastings +Disease...Wastings disease had ravaged Silvas in-home aviary that year. +During this file search, CI-2 saw a letter from an unknown individual +requesting Silvas help in packaging birds in South America... + +On January 30 1990, a Miami, Florida veterinarian, Dr. Thomas Goldsmith, +told Speecial Agent Jennifer English, US Fish and Wildlfie Service...that he +was present when CI-1 received approximnately 35 smuggled hyacinth macaws +from Tony Silva. Dr. Goldsmith said all of these birds were dead on arrival +and that he helped decapitate them. The birds needed to have their heads cut +off so that the carcasses could fit into the freezer... + +Silva [stated to CI-2] that Mr. Kaupmann [father of Ann aka Gisela Caseres] +has received hyacinth macaws for several years from a local bird trapper +named Enrique Bazan... + +While CI-2 was visiting Silva in the Canary Islands, Silva asked CI-2 to be +his partner in a scheme to smuggle between 80-100 live hyacinth macaws from +Brazil to the United States...Silva told CI-2 that the birds would be sent +from Brazil to Asuncion, Paraguay, then flown to Mexico City, Mexico. From +Mexico City they would be smuggled by car across the international border at +Tijuana, Mexico, into the United States. Silva stated that the +transportation of the birds through these countries would be facilitated by +bribing the necessary officials and/or concealing the birds from +detection...Silva also told CI-2 that the hyacinth macaws would be +anesthetised with a substance called ketamine, placed inside tubing inside +the door panels of automobiles for the trip across the border at +Tijuana...to maintain security, Silva was they would refer to hyacinth +macaws as Blues [in phone conversations]. + +On August 7, 1990, Tony Silva was in the Philippine Islands visiting +Antonio De Dios, CI-2 called Silva...in a tape-recorded telephone +conversation with Silva...Silva said that he had 50 hyacinth macaws and that +he was just waiting for David Ibarra to get his shit together. When CI-2 +asked Silva for further information, Silva replied, He says hes gonna do +it, but he says things are very hot because they caught Estudillo Lopez in +Mexico City smuggling. Silva went on to say, I can get em out. Ive--Ive +got confirmation so that I can get them to Mexico City with no problem. +During this same conversation, Silva again referred to Ann Kaupmann, saying, +she spoke with (uninteligible). Hell put them on a flight that goes Buenos +Aires, Lima, Lima, Mexico City. CI-2 expressed his apprehension about being +apprehended when the hyacinth macaws are brought into the United States. To +this Silva replied, Dont worry. Well listen, neither you nor I are going +to be anywhere near those birds when they land here. ++ +During [an] August 20, 1990 meeting, Daoud transferred three live +yellow-shouldered amazons and one lilacine amazin Amazona autumnalis +lilacina to CI-2 for Tony Silva. Daoud told CI-2 in a recorded conversation +that Silva wanted CI-2 to quarantine these four birds at his facility in +Madison, Wisconsin, because, as Daoud put it, the birds no are legal. + +During CI-2s October 21 visit with Silva,...Silva showed CI-2 an +assortment of unused metal bird leg bands stored in his garage...Silva said +he would use the leg bands to fraudulently identify the baby hyacinths as +having been bred in captivity... after showing the leg bands to CI-2, Silva +took CI-2 into his office...There Silva opened a file cabinet, and showed +CI-2 photographs of people who Silva described as being involved in the +exotic bird trade including David Ibarra and Ann Kaupmann, among others... + +[On} November 3, 1990, Silva told CI-2 that he was going to use a Cuban +male named Hector to smuggle the birds instead of David Ibarra. Silva +added that he and Hector, subsequently identified as Hector Ugalde, were +still trying to work out how much Silva was going to pay Ugalde for seeing +the birds through Mexico into the United States...Ugalde wanted a third of +the birds, plus money. Silva said that Ugalde wants $5,000 on top of that. +CI-2 asked Silva if that much money was a reasonable amount to pay for the +smuggling. Silva replied, Well you know, the thing is-- what I was trying +to explain to him is, look, you want five thousand: its gonna probably cost +six or seven to get them out of South America. You know. CI-2 interjected, +Just in bribes and... Silva continued Oh yeah. + +Telephone bills indicate that Silva made a number of phone calls to a +Florida phone number...the person Silva called in subscribed to an +individual named Hector Ugalde, who lives in Dilido Island, Florida. +Finally, this intelligence information revealed that Ugalde is also believed +to be involved in the smuggling of druigs, as well as wildlife, into the +United States. + +[CI-3 appears as an informant] + +CI-43 travelled to Argentina to meet with Horacio Cornejo. Cornejo is a +foreign bird supplier. CI03 told Cornejo that he wanted to be reimbured +several thousand dollars for some birds that died soon after Cornejo +exported them to him. Corenjo told CI-3 that he could not pay him because he +did not have the money. Cornejo told CI-3 that he was broke because Tony +Silva owed him $75,000. Cornejo told CI-3 that Silva, Thomas Peterson and +Larry Lefeber refused to pay him the money they owed him because a large +number of the birds they received from him were dead on arrival in the +United States...Cornejo told CI-3 that he sent Silva and the Petersons a +number of hyacinth macaws, various species of Amazon parrots, and golden +lion marmosets...Cornejo told CI-3 that the wildlife was placed in specially +constructed PVC tubing. The tubes were then hidden inside shipping crates +used to ship the legally acquired species. Cornejo said he then shipped the +wildlife from Argentina to the United States through Mexico... + +CI-3...indicated on other occasions the entire consignment of wildlife, +both legal and illegal, would be transshipped through Mexico to Chicago and +then cleared for entry into the United States by a Customs inspector, whom +they had bribed... + +Cornejo gave CI-3 three cancelled Lefeber Import checks made out to Horacio +Cornejo: one envelope from Gila Daoud, postmarked June 29, 1987, containing +three photographs of dead Toco toucans Rampastos toco and yellow-collared +macaws Ara Auricollis: one envelope from Gila Daoud postmarked September 8, +with four photographs of several dead hyacinth macaws: copies of money +transfers by Tona Silva to Brazil in 1986... + +[The hyacinth macaws remained stranded in Paraguay but plans were still +being made to move them]. + +Silva told CI-2 that things are very hot right now and that they would +simply have to hang tight. Silva said he would bring some of the +photographs of the Blues to show to CI-2. Finally, Silva discussed who +should be employed to bring the birds across the border. Silva said they +should use someone who leaves a clean path. Silva said, You know, all you +have to do is catch one of those little Mexicans that move a few Amazons +across and all shits gonna break loose. Theyre gonna tell everybody. + +THE SEARCH WARRANT WAS GRANTED BY MAGISTRATE JUDGE PATRICK MAHONEY 0N THE +BASIS OF RICHARD MARKS AFFIDAVIT. THE SECOND SUPERCEDING INDICTMENT ALLEGES +AN ILLEGAL IMPORTED OF RED-VENTED COCKATOOS FROM ANTONIO DE DIOS, A +PHILIPPINE BIRD BREEDER. ONLY SILVA, DAOUD, KOOPMAN AND UGALDE HAVE BEEN +INDICTED TO DATE. + +IPPL, POB 766, Summerville, SC 29484, USA +Phone, 803-871-2280, fax, 803-871-7988, e-mail [email protected] +Home page: sims.net/organizations/ippl/ippl.html +
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