Thread: Whole cooked crocodile seized from luggage at Dulles

Crocodile meat seized at Dulles

Tuesday - 4/5/2011, 12:19pm ET
Hank Silverberg, wtop.com

DULLES, Va -- Customs agents at Dulles International Airport had a strange find over the weekend.

Agents found 7 pounds of cooked antelope and a whole cooked crocodile in the luggage of a woman arriving on a flight from Ethiopia.

Department of Homeland security spokesman Steve Sapp says crocodile is an endangered species.

"We see a lot of bush meat, some types of smaller animals because it's an normal staple of protein in Africa."

The meat was seized and the woman fined $300 for failing to declare a prohibited product.

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