Law enforcement intercepted the turtles during a border inspection and observed them bound and taped inside knotted socks ...

Wei Qiang Lin, a Chinese national who lives in Brooklyn, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in New York to attempting to ...

Wei Qiang Lin worked to ship 222 packages of about 850 turtles — worth an average of about $1,650 a pop — to Hong Kong for ...

A Chinese man has pleaded guilty after being caught smuggling around 850 protected turtles worth $1.4 million in socks to ...

Wei Qiang Lin of Brooklyn pleaded guilty to smuggling 850 protected turtles and reptiles to Hong Kong and labeling them as ...

The man was caught after an undercover agent of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service coordinated a sale with him on Facebook, ...

Wei Qiang Lin, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, is accused of "falsely labelling live turtles as fake toys" prior to ...

A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to ...

Between August 2023 and November 2024, Wei Qiang Lin exported to Hong Kong more than 200 parcels containing the turtles, ...

Brooklyn man Wei Qiang Lin confessed to sending 850 turtles valued at $1.4 million to Hong Kong. The reptiles were packed ...

Sometimes there are stories about criminals that make one wonder if they were trying to get caught. This case of a man trying ...