Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese man has been charged with smuggling protected turtles after the small animals bound inside socks were intercepted in ...

Smuggled turtles stuffed in socks, bound for China, are recovering at the Brevard Zoo. The Florida native Gulf Coast Box turtles are commonly targeted by wildlife traffickers. The turtles are healing ...

A New Jersey man has admitted to placing rare turtles inside tube socks, which were then placed inside boxes, which were then shipped to others interested in owning endangered turtles and a free pair ...

A Queens man who shipped hundreds of protected turtles to China via Hong Kong in tightly-wrapped parcels will spend the next year in federal prison. Chu Sen Guan, 33, and his brother, Chu Wei Guan, 35 ...

This is not the sequel to Dr. Seuss’ “Fox in Socks.” A man from New York admitted to stuffing 850 protected turtles into socks and trying to smuggle them to Hong Kong. The value of the turtles was ...

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 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. Subscribe to ...