Dinosaur fossils smuggled into Tucson gem show
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Chad Plantz, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, explains how agents caught a Canadian man who smuggled dinosaur fossils into the United States from China and tried to sell them at the 2015 gem show in Tucson. The man was convicted of a federal smuggling charge and sentenced on Feb. 22, 2016 to five years probation. Video by Curt Prendergast/Arizona Daily Star.
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Homeland Security conducted undercover operation that resulted in arrest.
Case also involved "massive fraud" in Tucson, according to Department of Justice.
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