Thursday, 10 June 2021

Woman arrested at US border for smuggling 18 crocodile skulls and a single sloth

According to the Bangor Daily News, a Montreal woman was arrested at the US-Canada border in Highgate Springs, Vermont, after trying to smuggle the following items into the country:

  • 1 three-toed sloth
  • 18 crocodile skulls and heads
  • 7 crocodile feet
  • 2 horseshoe crabs
  • 30 sea stars
  • 23 raccoon feet
  • 8 African antelope horns
  • 1 human skull "with mounted butterflies"
  • 4 puffer fish
  • 6 six shark jaws

The woman, Vanessa Rondeau, owns a retail store in Montreal called Old Cavern Boutique, which "offers for sale a variety of unique curiosity and oddity items, many composed in whole or in part from wildlife." — Read the rest



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