Polish police find man, parrots in luggage
Warsaw, Poland, (UPI) — Polish police found a 38-year-old Armenian man trying to illegally enter the country by hiding in a woman’s luggage.
Police said the man was inside a suitcase on a Kiev-to-Berlin passenger train, Polish radio said Monday.
The luggage belonged to a 50-year-old Ukrainian woman.
The man, who was arrested, had forged documents including a card with a false name, police said.
In another border incident, a Ukrainian man was arrested Sunday when he tried to to smuggle 65 parrots into Poland, also in luggage, a radio report said.
The parrots were of a protected species and the man did not have the documents required to transport them. The birds were sent to a zoo in Warsaw.