New Mexico Man in Trouble for Selling Elephant Tusks

A businessman from New Mexico has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pensacola, Florida for the illegal sale of two African elephant tusks. Charles Kokesh is alleged to have imported a sport-hunted African elephant trophy mount from Namibia in a legal manner, but then illegally removing the tusks to sell them to a buyer in Florida. Kokesh is charged with violations of the Endangered Species Act and the Lacey Act for removing and selling the trophy’s tusks and for “making false accounts of wildlife related to that sale” to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...more