Tusk thief tells his story, is sentenced

摘要

Gary Lynn Boyd thought moving to Alaska might set him straight. For a while, it did.Now, though, the drug-bitten man dubbed "Booster Gary" will endure a 33-month prison sentence for helpingsteal a woolly mammoth tusk from a Bureau of Land Management science center in Anchorage.Boyd's sentence, handed down Wednesday, makes the 41-year-old former California resident one of the first,along with his previously sentenced partner in crime Martin Elze, to do time for violating the PaleontologicalResources Preservation Act.