The director of a Mexican state commission of zoos and parks tried to buy a gorilla on the black market to replace one that had died. He offered $92,000 to an undercover FWS agent in Miami. The agent asked Customs to be part of the sting.
They borrowed a gorilla cage filled with droppings from the Miami zoo. They put the cage inside a Customs undercover plane for "transport." They dressed a Fish and Wildlife agent in a gorilla suit and put him in the cage.
When the zoo director boarded the plane to see what he'd bought, he commented, "Boy, that's a big one!" That's when the pilot, also an FWS agent, arrested him.
