Martin Bell

Yes, I think we can get a warrant for that, I said. And it's just one of those moments where you're just like, is this serious? Like you could do drug or money laundering or stolen property prosecutions forever and never have a moment quite like that. Right. Where while you're doing the search warrant, people show up with more contraband.

Yes, I think we can get a warrant for that, I said. And it's just one of those moments where you're just like, is this serious? Like you could do drug or money laundering or stolen property prosecutions forever and never have a moment quite like that. Right. Where while you're doing the search warrant, people show up with more contraband.

Yes, I think we can get a warrant for that, I said. And it's just one of those moments where you're just like, is this serious? Like you could do drug or money laundering or stolen property prosecutions forever and never have a moment quite like that. Right. Where while you're doing the search warrant, people show up with more contraband.

Mr. Prokopi had an entire garage out back of his home in Gainesville, or just outside of Gainesville, where he was working on a good number of fossils that seemed to trace back to Mongolia, and in fact, had taken a number of pictures of what seemed to be him in the Gobi Desert with others extracting these fossils from the ground. and some of them had already been sold.

Mr. Prokopi had an entire garage out back of his home in Gainesville, or just outside of Gainesville, where he was working on a good number of fossils that seemed to trace back to Mongolia, and in fact, had taken a number of pictures of what seemed to be him in the Gobi Desert with others extracting these fossils from the ground. and some of them had already been sold.

Mr. Prokopi had an entire garage out back of his home in Gainesville, or just outside of Gainesville, where he was working on a good number of fossils that seemed to trace back to Mongolia, and in fact, had taken a number of pictures of what seemed to be him in the Gobi Desert with others extracting these fossils from the ground. and some of them had already been sold.

Interestingly, the piece that arrived during our raid... Yeah, what was that? ...was a particularly special piece called the Graveyard of the Overraptors.

Interestingly, the piece that arrived during our raid... Yeah, what was that? ...was a particularly special piece called the Graveyard of the Overraptors.

Interestingly, the piece that arrived during our raid... Yeah, what was that? ...was a particularly special piece called the Graveyard of the Overraptors.

We are the graveyard of the Overraptors. It's just, you know, do free bird. The graveyard of the Overraptors was a naturally made piece involving five or six Overraptors that had met some sort of common fate and were tangled up with each other. The Overraptors looked something like, and again with Jurassic Park as a reference, that one scene where there's a stampede

We are the graveyard of the Overraptors. It's just, you know, do free bird. The graveyard of the Overraptors was a naturally made piece involving five or six Overraptors that had met some sort of common fate and were tangled up with each other. The Overraptors looked something like, and again with Jurassic Park as a reference, that one scene where there's a stampede

We are the graveyard of the Overraptors. It's just, you know, do free bird. The graveyard of the Overraptors was a naturally made piece involving five or six Overraptors that had met some sort of common fate and were tangled up with each other. The Overraptors looked something like, and again with Jurassic Park as a reference, that one scene where there's a stampede

and they hide behind a sort of like ossified tree. Oviraptors are best known for and named for, as I understand it, being sort of egg-stealing dinosaurs. They steal other dinosaurs' eggs.

and they hide behind a sort of like ossified tree. Oviraptors are best known for and named for, as I understand it, being sort of egg-stealing dinosaurs. They steal other dinosaurs' eggs.

and they hide behind a sort of like ossified tree. Oviraptors are best known for and named for, as I understand it, being sort of egg-stealing dinosaurs. They steal other dinosaurs' eggs.

Yes, yes, well done. So here's what we wind up learning. There are a handful of people who are the really key figures in this trade, who are known and of varying degrees of either innocence or the same sort of questionable nature. And I learned that this investigation is going to hit that trade generally like a thunderbolt because a lot of this had been happening in plain sight.

Yes, yes, well done. So here's what we wind up learning. There are a handful of people who are the really key figures in this trade, who are known and of varying degrees of either innocence or the same sort of questionable nature. And I learned that this investigation is going to hit that trade generally like a thunderbolt because a lot of this had been happening in plain sight.

Yes, yes, well done. So here's what we wind up learning. There are a handful of people who are the really key figures in this trade, who are known and of varying degrees of either innocence or the same sort of questionable nature. And I learned that this investigation is going to hit that trade generally like a thunderbolt because a lot of this had been happening in plain sight.

Ultimately, we decided to plead Mr. Prokopi out on what's called a cooperation agreement. A cooperation agreement usually means that you are agreeing to testify against other people in exchange for lenience, or at least the hope of lenience. You can imagine with these cooperation agreements, we like to work our way up criminal organizations, not down. Mr. Prokopi didn't really have...

Ultimately, we decided to plead Mr. Prokopi out on what's called a cooperation agreement. A cooperation agreement usually means that you are agreeing to testify against other people in exchange for lenience, or at least the hope of lenience. You can imagine with these cooperation agreements, we like to work our way up criminal organizations, not down. Mr. Prokopi didn't really have...