The turtles, with an estimated market value of $1.4 million, were intercepted by law enforcement at a border inspection, prosecutors said. Officers saw them bound and taped inside knotted socks within ...

A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than one million US dollars from the US to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labelled “plastic animal toys”. Wei ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

A New York resident has admitted to attempting to smuggle protected turtles, valued at more than $1 million, from the United States to Hong Kong, concealing them in boxes falsely labelled as "plastic ...

The live turtles had been wrapped in socks for the weeks-long journey and the boxes were labeled as containing ‘plastic animal toys’. (USFWS/AFP pic) A Chinese man faces up to five years in prison for ...

This box turtle made it safely across the road this time. But the sunken area on top of its back, as well as the white scars on its back, tell of a past near tragedy. We can only guess how the injury ...