Tanzania Priest Sentenced for Possessing 224 Tusks
From Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania —
Father Fidelis Erio, a Roman Catholic priest, was sentenced to one day in jail at Mtwara in southern Tanzania for unlawful possession of 224 elephant tusks.
The tusks, valued at $100,000, were found in a store at his church compound in the capital, Dar es Salaam, last May. The priest, who was sentenced on Saturday, had denied the tusks were his.
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