A New York man who tried to send hundreds of live turtles falsely labeled as plastic animal toys to Hong Kong has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. Wei Qiang Lin, a 55-year-old Chinese ...
The turtles, with an estimated market value of $1.4 million, were intercepted by law enforcement at a border inspection, prosecutors said. Officers saw them bound and taped inside knotted socks within ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labeled “plastic animal ...