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[arlynos]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080411/od_afp/uscrimeenvironmentiguanasoffbeat

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A Californian man faces jail after being convicted of smuggling stolen rare iguanas into the United States inside his prosthetic leg, justice officials said Friday.

Jereme James, 34, was convicted on two counts of smuggling and possessing endangered animals and is due to be sentenced on July 14, a statement from the US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles said.

Prosecutors said James stole three baby Fiji Island banded iguanas from an ecological preserve while on a trip to the South Pacific islands in 2002 and smuggled them by concealing them in the compartment of a prosthetic leg.




The iguanas are threatened with extinction because of habitat loss and are considered an endangered species.

[RonCrawford]

[deborahbroadus]

Those are PRETTY! AWWWWW...I know he probably wanted them so that he could use them to get rich quick, but those a really very pretty.

[jb.t3ch]

wow they really are beautiful!

guess ya gotta try and get them in the country some how, why not use your fake leg...

wonder what gave him away, could it have been the fact that he was carrying his fake leg around instead of using it??