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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Put down that tusk, Sgt. Preston!
What a gigantic poop chute! How I despise people like this!
He just wanted to build the nar-wall!
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.
They’re ivory, same as elephant tusks.
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.
Benton Fraser, Meg Thatcher, and Turnbull would never do such a thing.
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