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Man sentenced for selling artifacts from Mammoth Cave

A three-year undercover investigation found Gary Womack was dealing artifacts from graves in Kentucky and the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Credit: National Parks Service / NPS.gov
The Frozen Niagara, a flowstone, or travertine, formation inside Mammoth Cave.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – A man will spend 15 months in prison after investigators discovered he was selling artifacts from Native American burial grounds.

A three-year undercover investigation found Gary Womack was dealing artifacts from graves in Kentucky and the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. He is also accused of purchasing artifacts from a 1992 case in Indiana then selling them to an undercover agent.

Womack pleaded guilty in March.

All of the artifacts in the case have been recovered.

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