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Kayaking smuggler caught attempting to row 29 protected turtles into Canada
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Kayaking smuggler caught attempting to row 29 protected turtles into Canada

Allan Rose Hill
Oct 12, 2024
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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.

According to a Border Patrol agent's affidavit affidavit, she wrapped the turtle…

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