{"id":509538,"date":"2026-10-27T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509538\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:08:12","slug":"california-couple-pleads-guilty-to-trafficking-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/509538\/","title":{"rendered":"California couple pleads guilty to trafficking wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793110092_26_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 27, 2026 1:24PM<\/p>\n<p>A California couple has pleaded guilty to trafficking wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CALIFORNIA (KFSN) &#8212; A California couple has pleaded guilty to trafficking wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to court documents, the Anaheim couple processed more than $50,000 in payments to help someone in Vietnam illegally move wildlife items to and from Oregon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The trafficked items included lion teeth, a tiger pelt and rhino horn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities say the rhino horn was disguised as a household decoration to evade customs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The couple was sentenced to three years of probation and fined $10,000 each.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, October 27, 2026 1:24PM A California couple has pleaded guilty to trafficking wildlife. CALIFORNIA (KFSN) &#8212; A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[196515,195835,2113,7,9,8,294,34221,7662],"class_list":["post-509538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-196515","tag-anaheim-couple","tag-animals","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-timely","tag-trafficking","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}