Sai Keung Tin, 54, was sentenced on Friday for his role in trafficking eastern box turtles, according to the U.S. Department ...

A Hong Kong man was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Friday for smuggling a protect turtles species after wildlife ...

The turtles intercepted at a Torrance mail facility were bound in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move ...

The eastern box turtle is a subspecies of the common box turtle and is native to forests in the eastern United States with some isolated populations in the midwest. An affidavit filed in the case ...

He and Tin primarily trafficked the eastern box turtle, a subspecies of the common box turtle which is native to the U.S., according to prosecutors. Smuggling the species across international ...