California man pleads guilty to smuggling 1,700 animals from Mexico
https://news.yahoo.com/california-ma...225340880.html
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Thanks for posting this, Carlo.
Looks like this person has no ads here from that time period. He may have simply deleted them since, I don't know, but it may be that pressure from the community helped make those sales a little bit more difficult. It is unfortunate that this pattern of trafficking across that border is common enough that it makes sense to doubt the legitimacy of any commonly smuggled Mexican animals being sold from that region of the US. There are some people producing legal specimens of at least some of these species, but since it looks like smugglers are providing greater numbers of these animals a prudent buyer would simply refuse to believe a specimen is legit without air tight documentation. In other words, people like Perez are making all this more difficult for legit breeders. As if having a small reptile breeding business/self sustaining hobby isn't hard enough. |
He had ads here under various accounts and they were dealt with as swiftly as possible. Just an fyi.
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It is perfectly reasonable to not consider it, I think, since so much is performed invisibly and at all sorts of odd hours. I appreciate you and other effort-making members of the keeping community, too, as it takes a network of people with a mutual goal of common good in mind in order to be most effective.
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That guy did our hobby no favors. FYI, each animal was worth, according to FWS, an average of $12,316.66...…
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The values you see in these cases are often made up by a CI or reflect a maximum value in any portion of the global market instead of what the defendant receives for them. Kind of a razzle dazzle show to impress the public with exaggerated numbers as well as claim larger achievements to justify agency budgeting. In short, not always accurate and commonly politically motivated for an organization.
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They are really the ones putting in the grunt work trying to keep those predatory cretins away from you all. Honestly, without their help, this site likely wouldn't be here today. |
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