Six months for largest live reptile smuggling bust in Canada

31 July 2010, 5:41 am

After smuggling 1,475 turtles and snakes in the panels of his van over the Canadian border, a Niagara-on-the-Lake man was handed a six-month conditional sentence Friday. The discovery at the Queenston-Lewiston bridge by authorities was believed to be the largest seizure of live reptiles in Canada.[...]... Read More »

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