Shaanxi police smashed a criminal gang that fossilized ancient vertebrate fossils and 8 people were arrested and seized 200 kilograms of fossils
Recently, in Fugu County, Yulin, Shaanxi, the local police smashed a criminal gang that fossilized ancient vertebrate fossils, arrested 8 suspects, and seized 200 kilograms of ancient vertebrate fossils.
In mid-May, some villagers in Dachanghan Town, Fugu County, Yulin, Shaanxi, discovered that several foreign accented men often drove a pickup truck into and out of the local ravine. During the observation, the villagers found that someone dug a hole in the mountain to pour the soil, and packed and carried things with nylon bags. When the crowd found this suspicious situation, they immediately called the police. After receiving the alarm, the police quickly attacked and seized a variety of criminal tools such as generators, hammer drills, and shovels on the spot.
At the digging site, the reporter saw that the suspects were screened on the red cliffs where the clay was distributed. There are three large digging holes, each of which is about 1.5 meters high and about 1 meter wide. The movable range inside the cave is large, and there are many bifurcations, each of which is more than 30 meters deep.
According to expert appraisal, the ancient vertebrate fossils seized by the police belonged to animal populations from 5 to 10 million years ago, including three-toed horses, artiodactyls and large-lipped rhinoceros.
At present, the suspects Mamou, Fangmou, Gumou and other seven persons were detained by the Fugu County Public Security Bureau in accordance with the law for suspected theft of ancient vertebrate fossils. . (CCTV reporter Wu Chengxuan Guo Sheng)