Vermont
Woman pleads guilty to attempting to smuggle protected turtles
A woman from Hong Kong pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Vermont to a charge of smuggling for trying to illegally transfer more than two dozen protected turtles from the United States into Canada.
Ng was arrested June 26 at an Airbnb in Canaan, Vt., as she was about to get into a inflatable kayak on Lake Wallace with a duffle bag, which authorities later found contained 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks, according to co... [3503 chars]