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• Monkey-smuggling women sentenced to jail

  April 29, 2009 in City A Spokane woman who faked pregnancy to smuggle a rhesus macaque monkey from Thailand into the United States in violation of federal laws has been sentenced to jail, along with …

• Women convicted of smuggling monkey

  December 9, 2008 in City on Page A6 A 29-year-old Spokane woman and her mother were convicted Monday by a U.S. District Court jury of smuggling a monkey into the United States. Gypsy Lawson hid the young rhesus …

• Second monkey seized; three people indicted

  March 8, 2008 in City on Page A1 A second exotic monkey has been seized in Spokane, and this one may have been smuggled into the United States under a pregnant-looking woman’s blouse, authorities said Friday. Three people … 1