Woman caught smuggling 29 protected turtles from US to Canada
A woman from Hong Kong was caught for trying to smuggle 29 protected turtles from the United States into Canada.
Wan Yee Ng, 41, entered the guilty plea Friday in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont to a single count of attempting to smuggle eastern box turtles from Vermont to Canada.
Eastern box turtles are a protected species in Vermont as well as in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Hampshire.
According to an affidavit, Ng was arrested on June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan, Vermont.
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