South Florida reptile dealer sentenced to prison over illegal turtle exports

Michael Van Nostrand, who had been the subject of the best-selling book “The Lizard King,” used a network of collectors to catch turtles in the wild and then submitted documents that falsely claimed the turtles had been captive-bred.

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