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Illegal piranhas and stingrays: Hawthorne firm chief extradited from Mexico

A former West Hills resident was due in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Monday afternoon to face federal charges related to the illegal trafficking of the world’s largest freshwater fish, a South American species known as Arapaima gigas. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Isaac Zimerman, a 66-year-old American citizen, was extradited from Mexico last Thursday. […]

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