7 live sharks, 3 dead ones found in home's basement pool

<p>Seven live sharks and three dead ones have been seized from a pool in the basement of a home in New York's Hudson Valley.</p>

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Sep 7, 2017, 2:42 PM

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7 live sharks, 3 dead ones found in home's basement pool
LAGRANGEVILLE, N.Y. (AP) -- Seven live sharks and three dead ones have been seized from a pool in the basement of a home in New York's Hudson Valley.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Wednesday officers searching a home in the Dutchess County hamlet of LaGrangeville last month found a 15-foot-diameter aboveground basement pool with seven live sandbar sharks, two dead leopard sharks and one dead hammerhead shark.
Officials say all the sharks were 2 feet to 4 feet long.
Marine wildlife experts took blood samples and measured and tagged the sharks before transferring them to the Long Island Aquarium in a truck equipped with water tanks, oxygen and climate control.
No one has been charged. An investigation is continuing.
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