{"id":27289,"date":"2014-09-29T12:51:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T04:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=27289"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:51:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T04:51:28","slug":"canadian-national-nabbed-with-51-turtles-hidden-in-his-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/29\/canadian-national-nabbed-with-51-turtles-hidden-in-his-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian national nabbed with 51 turtles hidden in his pants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OTTAWA \u2013 We\u2019ve all heard the saying \u201cants in my pants.\u201d But \u201cturtles in my pants?\u201d Now that\u2019s a new one.<\/p>\n

US Federal Court documents showed this week that a Canadian was caught at the US-Canada border with 51 live turtles stuffed in his pants.<\/p>\n

American authorities said that the elaborate reptile smuggling scheme was uncovered last month, but disclosed on Friday, September 26, in a report by the Toronto Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n

The newspaper cited that a certain Kai Xu was accosted by Canadian border officials as he tried to cross into Windsor, Ontario from Detroit, Michigan in August. He was then turned over to US authorities.<\/p>\n

The US Fish and Wildlife Service said, as quoted by the Globe and Mail, that “Xu was found to have 51 live turtles taped to his person;” the varieties of which included eastern box turtles, red-eared sliders and diamondback terrapins. These varieties of North American turtles fetch as much as $800 on the black market.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, another Canadian national, Lihua Lin, was arrested on Wednesday at the Detroit airport for attempted turtle smuggling, as well.<\/p>\n

Lin was bound for Shanghai with over 200 North American pond turtles in his checked luggage. He said that he was dropped off at the airport by Xu.<\/p>\n

Although the charges have yet to be proven in a court of law, Xu and Lin face up a maximum prison sentence of 10-years, if convicted of smuggling and other similar offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA \u2013 We\u2019ve all heard the saying \u201cants in my pants.\u201d But \u201cturtles in my pants?\u201d Now that\u2019s a new …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,7265],"tags":[7999,7997,7998],"class_list":["post-27289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-weird","tag-canadian-smuggling-turtles","tag-turtle-smuggling","tag-wildife-smuggling","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}