Quebec man who threatened Trudeau, Legault online sentenced to 20 months in jail
A Quebec man who pleaded guilty to threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier François Legault has been sentenced to 20 months in jail.
Prosecutors in Guatemala said Thursday they have found more possible pre-Hispanic artifacts during a search of the home of an American couple facing charges of smuggling historical relics.
Prosecution spokesman Juan Luis Pantaleon said several pieces were found at the home that may be seized as evidence in the case. The couple lives in the tourist town of Antigua, just outside Guatemala City.
The case involves two Americans, one a photographer and the other a connoisseur of Mayan folk art. Photographer and designer Stephanie Allison Jolluck was detained a week after trying to fly out of Guatemala with two stone carvings were made between 600 and 900 A.D.
Jolluck says she bought them at a market, believing they were souvenirs.
Jolluck was released on her own recognizance after her arrest at the airport because she was a long-term resident of Guatemala. But Jolluck and her American companion, Giorgio Salvador Rossilli, were detained again Sunday when they were found with 166 Mayan artifacts in their vehicle.
After police pulled them over, Rossilli apparently argued ignorance. Prosecutor Jorge Alberto de Leon said the couple told a judge they thought the artifacts were cheap reproductions.
"They argued that, because they are foreigners, they cannot tell one piece from another," de Leon said. "They told the judge that because they were pieces of stone they had seen sold at the markets, they never imagined that they were ancient archeological pieces."
Guatemala's Culture Ministry says that 90% of the 166 artifacts -- mostly stone carvings -- found in the couple's vehicle are authentic. People smuggling relics and archaeological artifacts face between 5 and 10 years in jail if convicted in Guatemala.
De Leon said Rossilli also argued the pieces weren't his, and that he had been given them by someone else to restore, and that he was returning them when he was detained.
On Monday, Judge Sherly Figueroa released both Jolluck and Rossilli on bail of about $6,400 apiece and allowed them to keep their passports but prohibited them from leaving the country. They will be required to show up at prosecutors' offices every two weeks as their case continues.
Jolluck's lawyer, Juan Carlos Velasquez, refused to discuss the case with journalists, saying ,"I don't litigate in the media."
A Quebec man who pleaded guilty to threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier François Legault has been sentenced to 20 months in jail.
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