Two southwest Miami-Dade households and one regional business are looking for responses after a minimum of 6 birds were taken in the location in recent weeks.
The initially reported occurrence occurred on May 16. A macaw and cockatoo were taken from a residence on SW 161st Place.
“We were sleeping. The birds were best beside our room in the deck in a cage,” Eduardo Muñoz informed NBC6. “It’s frightened. What can I state? My children are distressed.”
He said his family was home at the time of the supposed theft, contributing to the level of issue. Muñoz said that he understood something was incorrect when the birds, Riki and Pepe, began shrieking.
“They belonged to my family,” he said. “I constantly believed it was almost difficult to take them.”
Also in southwest Miami-Dade, the Gomez family revealed a comparable belief in speaking to NBC6 recently. Luis Gomez, the owner of 2 parrots that were reported taken and the relative of an NBC6 staff member, said he was heartbroken when he discovered on July 16 that his family’s birds — Loca and Manú — had actually likewise been taken.
“They’re huge animals, so we’re believing that the individual who did this, you understand, is knowledgeable, and they manage these animals on a daily basis,” Gomez said.
Surveillance video obtained by NBC6 revealed yet another declared bird theft, which occurred on July 6 at Galloway Farm Nursery.
“I was troubled,” staff member Javier Almedo said. “I understood these birds for a long time. I was constantly the one who would feed them.”
Despite fencing, noticeable security cams and signs caution that the property was being enjoyed, a private appeared to get into the nursery and head directly for the cages, leading staff members to think that the supposed theft had actually existed previously.
“He or she understood precisely where they [the birds] were,” Almedo said. “He didn’t squander no time at all. He simply came directly here and got them.”
Employees said that the birds, called Jamie and Paco, had actually been with the nursery for around ten years, changing a previous set of birds that had actually likewise been taken and never ever returned. Galloway Farm Nursery is now providing a benefit for the safe return of Jamie and Paco.
“They were there for the clients to come take pleasure in,” Almedo said, as a young client went into the nursery and inquired about the birds. “We simply desire them back home safe, and we simply hope that somebody will step forward and either turn themselves in, or if they have any info, go to regional authorities.”
