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Ex-Mountie Accused of Smuggling Narwhal Tusks Pleads Guilty
ABC News ^ | Sep 28, 2016

Posted on 10/06/2016 10:27:45 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer accused of smuggling narwhal tusks across the border pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to 10 money-laundering counts.

Gregory Logan, 59, of St. John, New Brunswick, smuggled 250 tusks valued at $1.5 million to $3 million into Maine in false compartments in his vehicle, prosecutors said.

Narwhals are medium-sized whales known for spiral tusks that can grow longer than 8 feet. They are protected by the U.S. and Canada.

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TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: ivory; narwhals; poaching; smuggling
I didn't even know there was a market for narwhal tusks. How did they even get 250?
1 posted on 10/06/2016 10:27:45 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Put down that tusk, Sgt. Preston!


2 posted on 10/06/2016 10:36:55 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: nickcarraway

What a gigantic poop chute! How I despise people like this!


3 posted on 10/06/2016 10:37:20 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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4 posted on 10/06/2016 10:37:51 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: nickcarraway

He just wanted to build the nar-wall!


5 posted on 10/06/2016 10:37:58 AM PDT by Boogieman
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6 posted on 10/06/2016 10:42:04 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: nickcarraway

Aren’t the aborigine natives, “Indigent” peoples, first nations the only ones allowed to take certain walrus and narwal tusks?

” My boomerang won’t come back,
My boomerang won’t come back,
I’ve waved the thing all over the place,
Practised till I was black in the face,
I’m a big disgrace to the Aborigine race,
My boomerang won’t come back.”

Sorry, I couldn’t help it.


7 posted on 10/06/2016 10:43:31 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (HANDGUNS; You don’t need it until you need it. And when you need it you NEED IT!”)
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To: nickcarraway

They’re ivory, same as elephant tusks.


8 posted on 10/06/2016 10:57:23 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Mountie probably bought them from a lazy Eskimo. My understanding is that if the tusk had been harvested by an aborigine and carved into art work by aborigines that it would have some legal sale value.
9 posted on 10/06/2016 11:01:01 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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I have read that some of their “art” is nothing but pencil sketches on the ivory to classify as “native art” so it can be shipped to others for reuse in other things by non-native people.


10 posted on 10/06/2016 11:09:53 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (HANDGUNS; You don’t need it until you need it. And when you need it you NEED IT!”)
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To: Steely Tom

Benton Fraser, Meg Thatcher, and Turnbull would never do such a thing.


11 posted on 10/06/2016 11:21:28 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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