A man in the United States is facing serious prison time after federal authorities say he smuggled 850 turtles stuffed into socks and shipped them to Hong Kong, disguising the shipments as toys.

This is not the sequel to Dr. Seuss’ “Fox in Socks.” A man from New York admitted to stuffing 850 protected turtles into socks and trying to smuggle them to Hong Kong. The value of the turtles was ...

HONG KONG (WKRC) - A man pled guilty to smuggling roughly 850 turtles worth a combined $1.4 million by hiding the reptiles inside socks. According to a press release from the United States Department ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labeled “plastic animal ...

Suspect Wei Qiang Lin "labeled the boxes as containing 'plastic [and] animal toys,' among other things," authorities said Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labeled “plastic animal ...