A Hong Kong man pleaded guilty Friday to trafficking eastern box turtles from Southern California to China after wildlife inspectors discovered the endangered animals inside packages at a Torrance mail facility.
Sai Keung Tin admitted to four federal counts of exporting merchandise contrary to law for falsely labeling the packages as containing almonds and chocolate cookies, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. Instead, three of the packages had between eight and 12 live turtles inside, with all of them bound in socks as they were shipped, court records state.
ship the animals domestically to middlemen who would then package and send them to Hong Kong.The turtle species is protected against smuggling by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, a treaty restricting their movement across international borders, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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