San Jose: Merchant gets jail sentence for importing infested fruit

SAN JOSE — A South Bay merchant has been sentenced to three months in jail for circumventing agricultural checks to smuggle fruit from Vietnam that carried a destructive fruit fly, authorities said.

Court records show that Hanh Hong Huynh, 43, was sentenced Tuesday following her conviction in May of conspiring with another person to illegally import and sell tropical fruit.

The fruit, which included langsat, was examined and found to be “heavily infested with the larvae of a destructive...