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A Brooklyn man was indicted Monday for allegedly smuggling hundreds of ancient Egyptian artifacts through JFK International Airport earlier this year. The United States Attorney’s Office says Ashraf Omar Eldarir arrived at the airport on Jan. 22 with three suitcases of what he claimed to U.S. Customs and Border Protection as goods valued at about $300. But when agents opened…

The Department of Homeland Security says a man tried to bring hundreds of ancient Egyptian artifacts through customs at JFK International Airport back in January.

The pangolin – an unusual bug-hunting endangered mammal with a long tongue and scales all over its body – has now entered the COVID-19 scientific journals because it carries a coronavirus that looks strikingly similar to the virus that has swept the world.

The man admitted in a plea deal that he bought three-toed and western box turtles from people in Oklahoma, then sold them for a profit

Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 1,000 box turtles that were illegally collected in Oklahoma.

Shocking video shows contraband apparently smuggled in by a child’s diaper in what looked to be a regular family visit. Andrew Siff reports.

A group that allegedly smuggled more than 300,000 pairs of fake Nike Air Jordan sneakers into New York and New Jersey was broken up Tuesday by Homeland Security Investigations and NYPD detectives.

A Monterey Park man was arrested today on federal smuggling charges stemming from the seizure of a package that contained three king cobras hidden in potato chip canisters.

The U.S. Coast Guard discovered six tons of marijuana and four suspected smugglers floating in two panga boats south of San Diego this week.