HONG KONG (WKRC) - A man pled guilty to smuggling roughly 850 turtles worth a combined $1.4 million by hiding the reptiles inside socks. According to a press release from the United States Department ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labeled “plastic animal ...

Suspect Wei Qiang Lin "labeled the boxes as containing 'plastic [and] animal toys,' among other things," authorities said Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

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 ...

Wei Qiang Lin, of Brooklyn, New York, falsely labelled the live turtles as toys A Chinese man is facing jail after pleading guilty to exporting parcels containing around 850 turtles worth ...