Crash Claims Ex-Monkey Smuggler

A woman who smuggled a monkey from Thailand to Spokane in 2007 died late Tuesday or early Wednesday when her pickup truck went off the road four miles south of Northport. Gypsy R. Lawson, 31, of Northport, was driving south on state Route 25 possibly around midnight, when her 1986 Nissan pickup went off the road to the right in a left-hand curve, the Washington State Patrol reported. The pickup rolled over and hit some trees. The crash was not discovered until morning. Lawson, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene. Lawson and her mother were convicted by a federal jury in December 2008 of smuggling an exotic monkey into the United States. Lawson hid the young rhesus macaque monkey under her blouse and pretended to be pregnant while passing through U.S. customs after visiting Thailand in November 2007 with her mother, Fran Ogren of Northport/ Meghann Cuniff , SR. More here.

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