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11-11-2018, 02:36 PM
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Guillermo Riddle - Account: santiagoriddle - mexican species
Does anyone personally know this individual?
Name listed: Guillermo Riddle
Account: santiagoriddle
Email listed: santiagoriddle@hotmail.com
Name listed elsewhere as: Santiago Guillermo Riddle Rodriguez
Selling:
1. Mexican box turtles = 1.1 $2,000
2. Yucatán box turtles = 8.8 $13,000
Anyone know the legal status of acquiring/selling these in the USA?
Claims to be from El Paso, Texas
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Originally Posted by santiagoriddle
Yes I do live in El Paso Texas and I bought these from a friend Rene Trejo
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Elsewhere on the web, during the same time frame, claims to be from Eagle Pass, Texas 500 miles away from El Paso.
In addition, not a single IP from this person comes from Texas.
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11-11-2018, 04:05 PM
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Don't hesitate to step in and share more about yourself...
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11-11-2018, 05:31 PM
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Mexican Box
I've been wondering where these specimens were coming from as well. Brownsville Zoo in TX used to have a surplus of CB T. mexicana.
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11-11-2018, 05:38 PM
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Guillermo, can you produce any evidence that these animals were collected and exported legally, or that they are captive bred from legal parents?
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11-12-2018, 11:58 AM
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Just a note on the IP address thing: I use a VPN called IPVanish, and it causes my perceived IP address to bounce around if I'm on my cell phone, making it look like I am not where I actually am. I think most VPNs function this way, so I wouldn't take IP addresses as the only proof needed to decide whether or not to deal with someone.
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11-12-2018, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Will0W783
I use a VPN called IPVanish, and it causes my perceived IP address to bounce around
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You can tell when IP spoofing products are being used, that is not the case here.
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11-13-2018, 01:30 PM
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Ah ok. I had no idea that there was a way to tell if someone was using a VPN/IP spoof.
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11-13-2018, 09:54 PM
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FYI: Account (santiagoriddle) was unable to produce a valid Texas ID despite promising to do so. As a result of this and various other factors, said account is now 'Banned'.
Selling native Mexican & Yucatan box turtles with a Texas profile.
You can put the rest of the dots together at this point and figure out where all of his IPs were really coming from.
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11-28-2018, 08:28 PM
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He is consistently lingering around, trying to use his banned account. He still has our email if he wanted to produce a valid ID, alas, he doesn't.
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11-28-2018, 09:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert Walker
1. Mexican box turtles = 1.1 $2,000
2. Yucatán box turtles = 8.8 $13,000
Anyone know the legal status of acquiring/selling these in the USA?
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This probably won't answer your question. But here's what I found.
Yucatan Box Turtle Distribution
The Yucatan Box Turtle is an endemic species, meaning that the entire known species is isolated to a single area. The only known location of the Yucatan Box Turtle is the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, for which the turtle is named after. It is the southernmost subspecies of box turtle and is heavily isolated from the other subspecies; more so than any other type of box turtle. When first discovered, it was even believed not to be a subspecies but an independent species of its own.
Acquiring one in the United States is almost impossible. There are only a few examples of Yucatan Box Turtles being kept in captivity in America. Few studies have been done and little information is available; but the locals of Yucatan believe that the turtle’s population may be dwindling.
In addition to what he was trying to sell the turtles here for, I found that they sell for 10K USD plus per pair in japan, and there is some question as to the legality of the species there, and questions being asked if by chance they were smuggled. Now that's not to say that would be a legal situation here.
There's not much out there about this specie.
Good Luck Robert!
Lynn Peterson
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