Not Child’s Play: Smuggler Jailed After $1.4M In Live Vipers And Turtles Found Disguised As ‘Toys’
Dec 27, 2025
A Chinese National, living in New York, who tried to pass off shipments of venomous snakes and rare reptiles as children’s playthings, was sentenced to two years in federal prison Tuesday. Wei Qiang Lin was at the center of a lucrative wildlife smuggling scheme that authorities say involved shippi
ng approximately $1.4 million worth of protected […]
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