Chinese Man Pleads Guilty in US to Smuggling Protected Turtles

Man Who Tried to Export 850 Turtles Hidden in Socks Pleads Guilty

A man in Brooklyn pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to export around 850 turtles, worth about $1.4 million, by wrapping them in socks or diapers and labeling them “plastic animal toys,” the authorities said. The man, Wei Qiang Lin, of China, began exporting the turtles to Hong Kong in August 2023, and over the next 15 months tried to export 222 packages containing the live creatures, according to the Department of Justice. He also tried to …

Man admits he tried to smuggle 850 turtles in his socks worth $1.4 million to Hong Kong

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 toys.”

Man caught smuggling 850 turtles worth £1million into Hong Kong in socks - The Mirror

Wei Qiang Lin, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, is accused of "falsely labelling live turtles as fake toys" prior to exporting them in delivery boxes on a weeks-long journey to Hong Kong"

Brooklyn Resident Pleads Guilty To Trying To Smuggle 850 Protected Turtles Worth $1.4 Million

protected-turtles-smuggled Sometimes there are stories about criminals that make one wonder if they were trying to get caught. This case of a man trying to smuggle 850 protected turtles to Hong Kong from the United States is one of those stories. Not a great plan Wei Qiang Lin, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty on Monday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York to attempting to export more than 220 parcels containing aroun…

Boxes Labeled 'Plastic Animal Toys' Were Worth $1.4M

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 toys," reports the AP . Wei Qiang Lin, a Chinese national who lives in Brooklyn, pleaded guilty Monday in...