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DIGHTON-Students at Bristol County Agricultural High School are helping to save a rare species of turtle, the Chinese box turtle, as part of the school's latest conservation project. The project, ...

Sai Keung Tin, 54, was sentenced on Friday for his role in trafficking eastern box turtles, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Before he went astray into the illicit turtle trade, Yuan Xie was supported by his Chinese parents while he studied English at several colleges on the West Coast. Now, stamped with a criminal record, ...

One woman was moving as slow as a tortoise when she was caught red-handed trying to smuggle 29 protected turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. Wan Yee Ng, 41, was nabbed loading up an ...

Earlier that morning the officers had gone out to Chester County to question Terry Dewayne Lucas, an associate of Horton’s, about illegal shipments of eastern box turtles sent outside the state. But ...

A Chinese national living in Brooklyn tried to smuggle $1.4 million worth of protected turtles wrapped in masking tape out of the United States — by passing them off as “plastic animal toys,” ...

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 ...

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