Months after he was charged with attempting to smuggle nearly three dozen live finches from Guyana through the JFK Airport to sell for use in high-stakes bird-singing competitions, a Guyanese man on Thursday admitted to the crime.
A New York Post report said that Francis Gurahoo pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn federal court to trying to smuggle 34 live finches stuffed inside plastic hair rollers
“Gurahoo pleaded guilty to a smuggling charge before Magistrate Judge Robert Levy,” the report said.