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I straddled the sedentary reptile as I made my way through the countryside on the way home from the delta the other day. No, it wasn’t a cottonmouth or a timber rattler, for had it been, the outcome ...

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, 41, was arrested on the ...

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 ...

A woman from China has pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A woman from China pleaded ...

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 ...

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 ...

She was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffel bag, which contained the eastern box turtles, a protected species. The reptiles can fetch as much as $1,000 (£765) each on the Chinese ...