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ANCHORAGE, Alaska ? Two men accused ?f participating ?n a walrus ivory ?nd polar bear h?d? trading ring h??? pleaded guilty t? breaking federal marine mammal laws, ?nd a third self ?? probable t? plead guilty ?n Tuesday.
Federal agents establish hundreds ?f pounds ?f walrus tusks ?nd two polar bear h?d?? wh?n th?? searched th? home ?f Jesse James LeBoeuf ?nd h?? companion, Loretta Sternbach, ?n April, th? Quay Time ?ft?r time News reported.
LeBoeuf ?nd Sternbach w?r? accused ?f trading cigarettes, guns, snowmachines ?nd ?th?r bits ?nd pieces t? Natives ?n th? village ?f Savoonga ?n exchange f?r federally protected creature ??rt?. Co-conspirator Richard Weshenfelder marketed th? tusks ?nd h?d?? ?n th? Internet ?nd h?l??d sell th? ??rt? t? out-?f-state buyers, a federal indictment ???d.
LeBoeuf ?nd Sternbach ?l?? illegally sold ?nd transported walrus ??rt? ?nd tusks t? out-?f-state buyers, th? indictment ???d.
B? law, single Natives living ?n th? Alaska coast ??n hunt th? mammals, ?nd th?? ??n?t sell th? skinned ivory t? private collectors.
Authorities judge th? trading w?? done ?n two trips t? Savoonga ?n Saint Lawrence Island, wh??h lies ?n th? Bering Sound linking mainland Alaska ?nd Russia. LeBoeuf ?nd Sternbach b? ?n th?? world ?n Glennallen, ?b??t 180 miles northeast ?f Quay.
Weshenfelder, ?f Quay, ?nd LeBoeuf pleaded guilty ?n Friday. Sternbach ?? set t? penetrate a guilty plea ?n Tuesday.
?Sir, I ???t d?d wh?t I d?d t? g?t along ?n life,? LeBoeuf t?ld U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Burgess
Prosecutors ?r? seeking a nine-year sentence f?r LeBoeuf ?nd a five-year sentence f?r Weshenfelder. All three defendants ?r? probable t? b? sentenced ?n November.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Yvonne Lamoureux declined t? comment ?n th? possibility ?f charges f?r th? ivory suppliers.
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Information fr?m: Quay Time ?ft?r time News, http://www.adn.com

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