Poached ivory is consolidated, packaged, and shipped from Africa to Asia by large transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). When such a shipment is intercepted, we want to know (a) where did the ivory come from, and (b) which shipments likely came from the same TCO? Microsatellite typing can localize many elephants, though some individuals are frustratingly difficult. Adding the assumption that individuals in a single seizure are clustered relative to the whole continent improves assignment, though with some risk of over-clustering.