Fla. man in dinosaur caper appears in NY court for 1st time; judge eases bail conditions - The Washington Post: "After hearing lengthy arguments, Pitman raised Prokopi’s bail to $250,000, but he lifted a Florida judge’s requirement that he be confined to his Gainesville, Fla., home.
Prokopi, a fossils dealer who has been free on bail since his Wednesday arrest, is the owner of a 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton, known as Ty, that was seized by the government in June in a civil forfeiture action. The government accused Prokopi of smuggling the bones into the country illegally from Mongolia before assembling them into a skeleton that was sold by Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auctions for $1.05 million."
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