Man Arrested over Attempt to Smuggle Lizards Into Japan
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The 23-year-old faces up to five years in prison after being discovered at the Japanese airport with reptiles hidden in his luggage
A Mexican was arrested at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, after customs authorities discovered that he was trying to smuggle 200 specimens of dragoncitos, reptiles of the Abronia genus that he had allegedly acquired in Mexico to market them in the Asian market. The detainee was identified as Daniel Isaac Velasco Baltazar, 23, who traveled from South Korea to Japan with reptiles hidden inside his luggage. During a routine check, Tokyo Customs ins…
Tokyo The Tokyo Metropolitan Police reported on Wednesday the arrest of a Mexican man for smuggling, after the officers found several lizards hidden in socks in his suitcase, a police spokesman confirmed to EFE. The spokesman noted that the detainee, 23, identified as Daniel Isaac Velasco Baltazar, travelled on August 8 from South Korea to Japan, where customs authorities found nine copies of the Mexican alligator lizard ('abronia graminea') amo…
Among the specimens were nine alligator Mexican lizards, a species known as ‘dragoncito’ from the southern Sierra Madre Oriental.
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