A 69-year-old man has been fined $50,000 in Vermont for attempting to sneak nine carvings made from sperm whale teeth and walrus tusk across the Canadian border.

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A California man has been fined $50,000 in Vermont for illegally importing carvings made from sperm whale teeth and walrus tusk across the U.S.-Canadian border, federal ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- A California man has been fined $50,000 in Vermont for illegally importing carvings made from sperm whale teeth and walrus tusk across the U.S.-Canadian border, federal ...

Pedro Huertas, 69, of Pasadena, was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Highgate Springs Port-of-Entry back in 2021 after trying to bring Inuit carvings he had bought at an art ...

A California man has been fined $50,000 in Vermont for illegally importing carvings made from sperm whale teeth and walrus tusk across the U.S.-Canadian border, federal prosecutors said.

Federal prosecutors say a California man has been fined $50,000 in Vermont for smuggling carvings made from sperm whale teeth and walrus tusk across the U.S.-Canadian border. Posted October 20 ...