ICE, CBP Return 67 Artifacts Illegally Imported from Dominican Republic
On August 18, 2011, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that a collection of 67 artifacts illegally imported into the U.S. were returned to the Dominican Republic as a result of a series of seizures and several investigations conducted by…
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ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The individual to whom the artifacts were destined was the subject of an INTERPOL arrest warrant for theft of protected antiquities in Mexico. A curator determined that some of artifacts seized date from the periods of Chicoid A.D. 1200 to 1500; Archaic or later 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1200; or Ostionoid A.D. 1000 to 1500.