Sai Keung Tin, 54, was sentenced on Friday for his role in trafficking eastern box turtles, according to the U.S. Department ...

Chinese national Sai Keung Tin received a 30-month prison sentence for smuggling thousands of protected eastern box turtles ...

A federal judge sentenced Sai Keung Tin, a Chinese citizen, to nearly three years in prison for his role in smuggling ...

The turtles intercepted at a Torrance mail facility were bound in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move ...

Authorities say a man passing through security at a New Jersey airport was found to have a live turtle concealed in his pants ...

The turtles intercepted at a Torrance mail facility were bound in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move ...

A Hong Kong man was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Friday for smuggling a protect turtles species after wildlife ...

The turtles intercepted at a Torrance mail facility were bound in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move ...

(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) This photo provided by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shows a turtle in a box after a Pennsylvania man was caught with the turtle concealed in ...

The turtles were bound in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move and alert authorities, officials said. The eastern box turtle is a subspecies of the common box turtle and is ...

shows a turtle in a box after a Pennsylvania man was caught with the turtle concealed in his pants when the TSA body scanner triggered an alarm in the area of the mans groin on Friday, March 7 ...