Posted on 08/02/2017 4:05:55 PM PDT by Drew68
Jaguar fur on a 47-year-old coat has prompted a federal case in which prosecutors accuse an Alabama clothing consignment shop of violating the Endangered Species Act.
The shop, which does business as Hertha's Second Edition, ran afoul of the federal act by selling a fur coat to someone in Biloxi, Mississippi, prosecutors said in a criminal complaint filed this week in the Southern District of Alabama. The coat was made partly from the hide of a jaguar, authorities said.
A widower had brought the coat into the consignment shop after his wife had died, said lawyer T. Jefferson Deen III, who represents the business. Because the coat is so old, it was legal to have as long as it was kept in Alabama, Deen said.
But the buyer ended up being a government agent...
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
"But the buyer ended up being a government agent, who had put in an offer for the coat that was higher than others were asking and enticed the store to sell it across the state line..."
Wow! That store owner must've ticked somebody off real good!
I used to have a gorilla fur coat. It was old. It smelled bad. I sold it for $5 at a garage sale.
Another useless Fed who needs to be fired immediately.
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Entrapment, much?
Did the buyer leave in a black SUV? Helicopters flying around?
I hope they give the jaguar its coat back!
Jaguars are not endangered.
Jeff Sessions is a fine man and poor AG. These prosecutor should be summarily fired!! I hope Trump sees this!!
Leftist set up.
exercising evil power over the citizens.
Is there a price at which it was legal to sell across state lines? It sounds like there was.
If you charge more than anyone else, they charge you with price gouging.
If you charge less than anyone else, they charge you with unfair competition.
If you charge the same as everyone else, they charge you with collusion.
Probably a conservative?
Yeah, what agency are we paying for that goes around buying coats nearly half a century old?
Great use of tax dollars.
And if you count man-hours for the Feds, the coat probably really cost $10,000, to bust a small biz owner. Strong work.
Don't forget the court costs to prosecute.
Used to be there was something called “spirit of the law” to cut down on silliness.
“”I used to have a gorilla fur coat. It was old. It smelled bad.””
That’s too bad. You could have your choice of other smelly, old gorillas in the House of Representatives - one from TX, one from Los Angeles, one from Berkeley. I’m sure there are others but they don’t come to mind as easily!
No. This over 40 years ago. Haha
That wasn't a gorilla fur coat! it was mooooochele O!!!
Seems absurd to charge someone for selling something made long before the 1973 Endangered Species Act.
my guess the agent was not on duty and shopping when he or she came across the coat....if this was just a mom and pops operation and they did not know what they were selling an endangered species or were unaware of the law they were breaking the appropriate thing would of to inform the owner stop the sale and investigate to confirm that this was not an ongoing criminal enterprise.
Just so you know, I did not post about the coat with any racist thoughts.
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