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A Chinese man has been charged with smuggling protected turtles after the small animals bound inside socks were intercepted in packages in Southern California, prosecutors said Monday. Sai Keung Tin, 53, was indicted Friday on four counts of exporting merchandise contrary to law, records show. The eastern box turtles, kept inside socks to keep them from making noise, were found last year in four packages at a U.S. mail facility in Torrance, which were addressed to Tin’s home, the U.S.
Smuggled turtles are kept bound in socks to keep them from making noise by moving and to protect their shells, the agent wrote in the affidavit. Tin is associated with Kang Juntao, who smuggled at least 1,500 turtles from the U.S. to Hong Kong in 2017 and 2018, according to the affidavit. The turtles’ value in the pet trade is around $2.25 million. Middlemen for Kang would send turtles to Tin’s address in Hong Kong, and from there they would be smuggled to mainland China, the affidavit says.
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