EBT smuggler caught

[SinLA]

Should be accessible to all…

https://wapo.st/483cX3I

Woman attempted to kayak to Canada with bag full of protected turtles. 
Border Patrol agents in Vermont stopped the woman on the shore of Lake Wallace with a duffel bag containing $40,000 worth of Eastern Box turtles.

 

[Yvonne G]

29 turtles valued at 40,000?????? An eastern box turtle in the eastern states is now worth $1400 apiece? Glad they caught her, but it sounds like these two, husband and wife, have done this before.

 

[Oxalis]

Geez, is that sad. We need to solve some serious issues so people don't feel the need to smuggle wildlife just to have food on the table.

 

[wellington]

29 turtles valued at 40,000?????? An eastern box turtle in the eastern states is now worth $1400 apiece? Glad they caught her, but it sounds like these two, husband and wife, have done this before.

I wasn't able to read the story without getting an account. So going off what you said of the value placed on these turtles, which wouldn't go for no where near that price, did it say they had any connection to China or Japan?
There are other threads of people trying to do this. They got caught. The one would buy turtles/tortoises, smuggle them into Canada and then sell them over in China where the price for them is much higher then here.

 

[mark1]

29 turtles valued at 40,000?????? An eastern box turtle in the eastern states is now worth $1400 apiece? Glad they caught her, but it sounds like these two, husband and wife, have done this before.

the final destination was probably china, the west coast of canada is a huge trade route with china........i knew a guy , actually 2 guys who were caught for this, the turtles went from Pennsylvania to louisiana to california and were recovered going from california to china, they valued the turtles based on what they assumed was the final value...... just like they do dope......

 

[SinLA]

I wasn't able to read the story without getting an account. So going off what you said of the value placed on these turtles, which wouldn't go for no where near that price, did it say they had any connection to China or Japan?
There are other threads of people trying to do this. They got caught. The one would buy turtles/tortoises, smuggle them into Canada and then sell them over in China where the price for them is much higher then here.

That's weird, you should be able to view it without setting up an account...

 

[TammyJ]

I saw this news story yesterday. The woman was actually from China, and China was the intended destination.

 

[jaizei]

That's weird, you should be able to view it without setting up an account...

Looks like they changed it so that you have to have an account to "redeem" the free article.

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

That actually broke news here in Finland too!