Seven live sharks and three dead ones have been seized from a pool in the basement of a home in the Hudson Valley.
Officers searching a home in the Dutchess County hamlet of LaGrangeville last month found a 15-foot-diameter aboveground basement pool with seven live sandbar sharks, two dead leopard sharks and one dead hammerhead shark, officials said Wednesday.
All the sharks were 2 feet to 4 feet long, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Marine wildlife experts took blood samples and measured and tagged the sharks before transferring them to the Long Island Aquarium in a truck equipped with water tanks, oxygen and climate control.
No one has been charged. An investigation is continuing.
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