\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA man now in federal custody is accused of poaching and selling close to 1,800 protected turtles, taken from their natural habitats in Florida.Albert Bazaar, of Louisiana, is charged with conspiracy and violation of the federal Lacey Act, which criminalizes the selling or transporting of wildlife in interstate commerce that was taken in violation of state law, according to the U.S. Justice Department.Investigators said that between 2022 and 2023, Bazaar poached and sold more than 1,700 loggerhead musk turtles, 100 stripe-neck musk turtles, and 15 striped mud turtles. The turtles were sent to Taiwan as part of the Asian pet trade, the DOJ said in a series of news releases.If convicted, Bazaar faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each charge, the releases states, adding any sentence following conviction would be imposed by the court after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other factors.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A man now in federal custody is accused of poaching and selling close to 1,800 protected turtles, taken from their natural habitats in Florida.<\/p>\n
Albert Bazaar, of Louisiana, is charged with conspiracy and violation of the federal Lacey Act, which criminalizes the selling or transporting of wildlife in interstate commerce that was taken in violation of state law, according to the U.S. Justice Department.<\/p>\n
Investigators said that between 2022 and 2023, Bazaar poached and sold more than 1,700 loggerhead musk turtles, 100 stripe-neck musk turtles, and 15 striped mud turtles. The turtles were sent to Taiwan as part of the Asian pet trade, the DOJ said in a series of news releases.<\/p>\n
If convicted, Bazaar faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each charge, the releases states, adding any sentence following conviction would be imposed by the court after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man now in federal custody is accused of poaching and selling close to 1,800 protected turtles, taken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[117077,117078,28,30,29,117080,117079,2391,541,3574,76204,39323,405,101942,31218,7884,4624],"class_list":["post-273975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-albert-bazaar","tag-asia-pet-trade","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-interstate-commerce","tag-loggerhead-musk-turtle","tag-man","tag-news-release","tag-part","tag-selling","tag-sentence","tag-series","tag-transporting","tag-turtle","tag-violation","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273975","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=273975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}