Chief has stopped at Los Angeles Airport with 40 frozen piranhas | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – A famous South American chef said he was arrested while he was bringing 40 piranhas in a gym bag by the Los Angeles International Airport.

Virgilio Martinez, chef at Peru's Central restaurant, told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday that he hoped to serve the sharp-toothed predatory fish at a food festival in Los Angeles.

Martinez was featured in the third season of the Netflix Show "Chef's Table".

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He added that customs officers took him to an interrogation room last week after discovering the cache of frozen and vacuum-sealed piranhas.

After five hours, the agents let Martinez pass with the fish. He used them that night on a salad. The newspaper says that the next night, he dried the skins of piranha and served them inside the piranha heads.

Piranhas are common in South American rivers.

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