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A 38-year-old woman has been sentenced to one month in federal prison after pleading guilty Monday to smuggling shark fins, seahorses and sea cucumbers into the country and passing them off as “fish belly” and to attempted smuggling of American ginseng out of the country, which requires a federal permit to export. Xiao Pingping was alleged to have been shipping packages containing the wildlife .
LOS ANGELES — Wildlife traffickers pleaded guilty last week in federal court in California to illegally importing endangered sea cucumbers — which are prized in China for food and medicine
Sentences will be scheduled in the coming months for a foiled smuggling attempt where $10,000 worth of endangered sea cucumbers from Mexico were seized by officials at the border. Read more here.
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