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07/12/2004:

"A fisher king's fast fall"

Until he got snared for building a vast fish smuggling enterprise, Arnold Bengis nearly had the world fooled

It might have seemed an unlikely place to nab one of the nation's largest smugglers of illegally caught seafood: Arnold Bengis' Bridgehampton home, a villa of creamy stucco and Spanish tile, is nestled in one of Long Island's most serene settings -- on Dune Road, between the Atlantic Ocean and Mecox Bay.

But Chris Musto and other federal fisheries-enforcement agents already had tracked Bengis' criminal enterprise to hillside neighborhoods in Cape Town, South Africa, bustling docks in Singapore and cavernous warehouses in Newark. It was 6 a.m. on Aug. 6 when Musto and three other agents, along with Suffolk police, knocked on the door on Dune Road.

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