Curator at American Museum of Natural History Arrested in Turkey for Allegedly Smuggling Spiders and Scorpions (VIDEO)
Science or resource plunder? The frontier is sometimes not entirely clear.
Police in Turkey reportedly arrested a man suspected of trying to smuggle valuable poisonous spiders and scorpions out of the country.
Turkish state media identifying the suspect on Monday as a curator at New York’s American Museum of Natural History.
Reuters reported:
“Police arrested the suspect at Istanbul Airport on Sunday and seized dozens of bags from his luggage containing some 1,500 scorpions and spiders, including tarantulas, as well as dozens of plastic bottles containing unspecified liquids, police said.
The state-owned Anadolu news agency reported the suspect was Lorenzo Prendini, a curator at the historic U.S.
