1,000 L.A.-Destined Animals Intercepted
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Authorities found 1,000 animals--some rare or endangered--packed in crates to be smuggled to Los Angeles. Among them were anacondas, black crocodiles and several rare species of frogs and turtles from Peru’s Amazon jungle, police said. The animals, worth an estimated $500,000, were found Saturday in a warehouse at Lima’s international airport, said the chief of the ecological police. About 350 of them were dead, apparently poisoned by a sedative, he said. Markings on the boxes indicated they were headed for a company called Tower Group.
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