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Iguana smuggler convicted
A Californian man faces jail after being convicted of smuggling stolen rare iguanas inside his prosthetic leg, justice officials said on Friday. Jereme James, 34, was convicted on two counts of smuggling and possessing endangered animals and is scheduled 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 islands in 2002 and smuggled them by concealing them in the compartment of a prosthetic leg.
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Misfired artillery hurts cat
A piece of artillery that was apparently misfired by the military crashed through the roof of a home kilometers away on Friday and injured a young girl’s cat, which had to be euthanized, officials said. No people were injured when the 1kg piece hit the Jefferson Township home about 4km from the Picatinny Arsenal and landed in the girl’s bed, said Peter Rowland, arsenal spokesman. She wasn’t home, but her cat was sleeping on the bed.
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