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Woman pleads guilty to trying to smuggle 29 turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak

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Woman pleads guilty to trying to smuggle 29 turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak .

Wan Yee Ng , 41 , was arrested on June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag.

Border Patrol agents found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks.

Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market for $ 1,000 each.

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English

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