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Canadian caught with 51 turtles in his pants pleads guilty in Michigan

Published 2015-12-01, 05:22 p/m
Canadian caught with 51 turtles in his pants pleads guilty in Michigan

Dec 1 (Reuters) - A Canadian college student caught at a
border checkpoint in August 2014 with 51 live turtles in his
pants pleaded guilty to six smuggling charges on Tuesday in U.S.
District Court in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Kai Xu, 27, of Windsor, Ontario, admitted to smuggling or
trying to smuggle more than 1,600 turtles of different species
out of the United States from April 2014 until his arrest in
September 2014. Each of the six counts carries a sentence of up
to 10 years in prison.
In August 2014, Xu crossed the U.S.-Canada border into
Detroit and was watched by U.S. agents as he picked up a package
at a parcel center and appeared to transfer items before heading
back to the border, according to a criminal complaint.
When he passed back through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, Xu
was stopped by Canadian Border Services, which found and seized
41 live turtles taped to his legs and 10 hidden between his
legs, the complaint said.
The day of his arrest, Xu packed more than 1,000 turtles
into suitcases that he sent with a runner he had hired to fly
them to Shanghai from Detroit, prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge John Corbett O'Meara scheduled
sentencing for April 12 in Ann Arbor. Xu has been held in
federal custody since his arrest.

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