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Hong Kong turtle smuggler gets 2.5 years

Chinese national Sai Keung Tin received a 30-month prison sentence for smuggling thousands of protected eastern box turtles ...
The Boston Globe

Chinese woman facing charge of trying to smuggle turtles across Vermont lake to Canada

A woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to Border Patrol agents. Wan ...
KTLA

Feds allege man illegally shipped dozens of turtles to China

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A Chinese man has been charged with trying ...
Los Angeles Magazine

Feds Nab Torrance Turtle Trafficker Who Made Millions Off of ‘Inhumanely Bound’ Reptiles

Box turtle on display at a press conference at LAX last September to announce a large public awareness campaign against illegal wildlife trade. Message is for travelers and consumers who traffic and ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Box turtles. Coral. These illegally trafficked animals still need a good home

TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...
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Chinese national sentenced to prison for smuggling turtles from US to Hong Kong

A Chinese citizen has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for smuggling more than 2,000 turtles from the U.S. to Hong Kong over about five years, federal prosecutors said. Sai Keung Tin, 54, was ...