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Woodbridge man sentenced to home confinement for selling ivory carvings
A Woodbridge man was sentenced to five years’ probation, including six months’ home confinement, for the interstate sale of carvings made of sperm whale ivory. Richard Gontarek, 55, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael A. Hammer in Newark federal court to an information, charging him with two counts of violating the Lacey Act,…