THEY were the kind of browsers that no store wants: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents, armed with a search warrant and intent on seizing computers and questioning employees. The object of their inquiry: the skull of a small monkey, possibly an endangered species, that had been bought on EBay from a seller in Indonesia and sent to a high-end retailer on La Cienega Boulevard.
The investigation -- including one undercover agent dressed as a deliveryman and, later, another agent posing as a customer during a Valentine's Day raid -- might simply seem like an amusing tidbit of old news if it were not for the store in question: Blackman Cruz, widely regarded as one of the most prominent, trendsetting home décor retailers in Southern California.
I think that’s the right move to do.. We should learn to conserve endangered animals and species..