A man admitted trying to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from New York City to Hong Kong. They were ...

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

Suspect Wei Qiang Lin "labeled the boxes as containing 'plastic [and] animal toys,' among other things," authorities said ...

A man from New York admitted to stuffing 850 protected turtles into socks and trying to smuggle them to Hong Kong. The value ...

Between August 2023 and November 2024, Wei Qiang Lin, a Chinese national residing in Brooklyn, orchestrated a massive ...

A Brooklyn resident pleaded guilty Monday to smuggling hundreds of protected U.S. turtles overseas by labeling them as plastic toys and shipping them to Hong Kong in parcels stuffed with bound ...

Wei Qiang Lin faces up to five years in prison after smuggling 850 turtles in socks to Hong Kong, falsely labeling them as toys.

A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York for falsely labelling live ...