A Chinese national living in Brooklyn tried to smuggle $1.4 million worth of protected turtles wrapped in masking tape out of the United States — by passing them off as “plastic animal toys,” ...

(Reuters) - The birth of five Chinese big-headed turtles in a New York City zoo marks the first time the endangered creatures have been born in the United States, zoo officials said. The two-inch-long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — The U.S. Department of Justice Monday announced a Chinese national was charged with smuggling $1.4 million in ...

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 ...

A handout image released by the District Court for the Western District of New York from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service shows the sock-wrapped protected ...

FILE - In a photo taken Saturday May, 2, 2009, a male Eastern Box Turtle moves across a path at Wildwood Lake Sanctuary in Harrisburg, Pa. A woman from China was arrested on June 28, 2024, at a ...

A Chinese man faces up to five years in prison for trying to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to Hong Kong. Wei Qiang Lin, of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty on ...

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