Bring Me the Head of Marcus Aurelius

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't just about busting people at the border. Sometimes officials there get to do other stuff, like return an ancient marble sculpture of the head of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius to the Algerian government. ICE had seized the three-foot-high, 200-pound marble sculpture from Christie's auction house in New York, where it was up for sale. INTERPOL had alerted ICE that the artifact might have been stolen in a 1996 museum robbery.

ICE says it has agents in 50 locations around the world to work with host countries, the State Department and U.S. Customs and Border protection to identify stolen antiquities smuggled into the United States.