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.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including hundreds of handbags made from the skin of snakes, lizards and crocodiles in the baggage of a passenger from Nigeria.
The agency says in a press release Monday that the illegal items ' which also included a tiny dead macaque primate from Indonesia and elephant meat from a protected species in Thailand ' were seized between May 6 and May 10. They were found at an international mail facility and at Los Angeles International Airport.
The 387 purses were made from skins of African rock pythons, monitor lizards, dwarf crocodiles, cobras and puff adder snakes.
