Union County, Ill., man gets jail for taking artifacts

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

A Union County man was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail for removing more than 13,000 historical artifacts from a Southern Illinois National Wildlife Refuge, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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