Woman pleads guilty to trying to smuggle 29 turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak

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Woman pleads guilty to trying to smuggle 29 turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak
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Wan Yee Ng, 41, was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace, according to a Border Patrol agent’s affidavit

A male eastern box turtle moves across a path at Wildwood Lake Sanctuary in Harrisburg, Pa., on May 2, 2009.A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak.

The agents searched her heavy duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks, the affidavit states. Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market for $1,000 each, the affidavit stated.

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