{"id":269970,"date":"2026-05-13T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269970\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:17:09","slug":"luxury-yacht-company-pleads-guilty-to-illegal-timber-violations-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269970\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury yacht company pleads guilty to illegal timber violations in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0May 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM<\/p>\n

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MIAMI \u2014 Federal prosecutors announced<\/a> on Wednesday in Miami that a luxury yacht company pleaded guilty to charges related to illegal timber. <\/p>\n

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Sunseeker International Limited and Sunseeker USA Sales Co. Inc. admitted to two violations of the Lacey Act, a law that bans the import of illegally taken timber. <\/p>\n

The violations were related to a door and other parts made out of teak from Myanmar that were in yachts imported to the U.S., according to prosecutors. <\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Florida is one of the world\u2019s great gateways for luxury vessels, but our ports are not open to illegal goods,\u201d U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Qui\u00f1ones for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has imposed sanctions against the Myanma Timber Enterprise<\/a>, the sole authorized seller of export teak in Myanmar.<\/p>\n

Doug Ault, the assistant director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement, released a statement reacting to the case. <\/p>\n

\u201cTimber trafficking is a transnational crime that damages forests and puts legitimate businesses at a disadvantage,\u201d Ault said. <\/p>\n

The companies agreed to pay a $200,000 fine and to implement a compliance plan, according to prosecutors. Sentencing is Aug. 20.<\/p>\n

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The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI \u2014 Federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday in Miami that a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-269970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}