NASA Sting Nets Woman Offering Moon Rock for USD 1.7M


Los Angeles, May 21 (AP) A woman offering to sell a moon rock for USD 1.7 million was detained in a NASA sting, the authorities have said.

It is illegal to sell moon rocks, which are considered national treasures. The gray rocks, which were gifted to each US state and 136 countries by then-President Richard Nixon, can sell for millions of dollars on the black market.

NASA agents and Riverside County sheriff's deputies detained the woman, who has not been identified, after she met Thursday with an undercover NASA investigator at a restaurant in Lake Elsinore, about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles, the sheriff's office said yesterday.

They swooped in after the two agreed on a price and she brought out the rock, authorities said.

NASA had been investigating the woman for several months before the meeting.

  

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