Woman pleads guilty to trying to smuggle 29 turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak

Woman pleads guilty to attempting to smuggle protected turtles from Vt. into Canada - The Boston Globe

A woman from Hong Kong pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Vermont to a charge of smuggling for trying to illegally transfer more than two dozen protected turtles from the United States into Canada.

Woman caught trying to smuggle 29 turtles from US into Canada by kayak, faces 10 years in prison

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 inflatable boat at an Airbnb in Canaan, Vt., according to a Border Patrol agent’s affidavit filed in…

Woman Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Endangered Box Turtles Out Of The US In An Inflatable Kayak

A woman from China has pleaded guilty after being caught trying to smuggle 29 turtles out of Vermont and into Canada by paddling an inflatable kayak across a lake.I mean… kind of tough to talk your way out of that one.According to the Associated Press, 41-year-old Wan Yee Ng was arrested back in June at an Airbnb in Vermont with police showing up right as she was about to push off across Lake Wallace in her inflatable kayak with a duffle bag ful…

Woman pleads guilty to smuggling 29 protected turtles from US to Canada by kayak

Authorities say the Chinese woman was intending to sell the eastern box turtles for profit in Hong Kong.

Woman attempted to kayak from Vermont to Canada with bag full of protected turtles

A woman has pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle 29 turtles worth more than $40,000 from the United States into Canada using an inflatable kayak.

Kayaking smuggler caught attempting to row 29 protected turtles into Canada

Police arrested Wan Yee Ng, 41, who was planning to smuggle 29 protected eastern box turtles into Canada from Vermont. Her thinking was to row them across a Vermont lake in an inflatable kayak to later resell on the Chinese black market. — Read the rest The post Kayaking smuggler caught attempting to row 29 protected turtles into Canada appeared first on Boing Boing.