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A former Santa Barbara art dealer has been sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling pre-Columbian artifacts into the United States from Peru. David R. Swetnam, 31, who now lives in Healdsburg, admitted in May that he engaged in illegal smuggling by failing to properly declare the jewelry, ceramic vases and miniature stone mortars as artifacts in papers submitted to Customs officials.
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