A resident of Hong Kong was caught while paddling across a lake from Vermont to Canada in an inflatable kayak with the ...

Wan Yee Ng, charged with trying to smuggle 29 turtles into Canada, entered a guilty plea Friday in federal court in ...

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife special agent identified the species as Eastern box turtles, a subspecies of the common box turtle that is native to forested regions of the eastern United States ...

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Border Patrol agents found the Eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks in Ng’s duffle bag, Fox News reported. Wan Yee Ng was caught as she was trying to make off with 29 Eastern box ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. Wan Yee Ng ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. Wan Yee Ng ...

Wan Yee Ng admitted to trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, valued over $40,000, from the US to Canada via an inflatable kayak. She faces sentencing in December after being caught in Vermont.

The agents searched her duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks, the affidavit stated. Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market ...

Turtles are often seen as affordable and low-maintenance pets, but some owners release them into the wild when they become ...