Recent Raids Shed Light on New Mexican Looting Syndicate

Santa Fe Reporter | August 20, 2009
Using undercover sources, agents from the FBI and the US Bureau of Land Management spent more than two years infiltrating a tight-knit community of looters in New Mexico who dig up graves and pillage archaeological sites on public lands, then sell the items they find to dealers and collectors.

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