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SANTA FE — A ceramic pot and a 1,000-year-old ladle looted from New Mexico's El Malpais National Monument are among the stolen artifacts identified in a five-year federal investigation into the smuggling of Asian and American Indian antiquities.
Dozens of federal agents raided a Los Angeles gallery and four museums in Southern California, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, searching for artifacts taken from protected archaeological sites in Thailand, Myanmar, China and New Mexico, including Chaco Canyon.
Robert E. Olson, a 79-year-old dealer from Cerritos, Calif., was targeted in the latest raid, according to a search warrant.
Olson allegedly told an undercover agent in 2003 he had arranged for buyers to contribute some of the stolen artifacts to museums to claim fraudulent tax deductions, the warrant showed.
Olson reportedly told the agent he had the largest collection of American Indian ladles in the world — seven from Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the warrant showed.
