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Sat Jan 5, 2013, 12:24 PM Jan 2013

Narwhal smugglers? Yup!

Maybe something a few of us DU'ers were doing?

Narwhal Tusk-Smuggling Ring Cracked, Feds Say

The narwhal, a kind of Arctic whale, has been called “the unicorn of the sea” because of the long, straight, often spiraling tusk that males of the species can grow. It is illegal to import the tusks into the United States because narwhals are listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as near-threatened.

Now the Department of Justice says it has cracked a smuggling ring that operated for nearly a decade, often shipping narwhal tusks from the Canadian Arctic over the border into Maine in a trailer with a false bottom. Two Americans have been arrested, and an indictment, provided to ABC News by the Justice Department, says they will be charged next week with smuggling and money laundering.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/01/narwhal-tusk-smuggling-ring-cracked-feds-say/

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