Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Turtle Skins

douglas9

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Sat Jan-19-08 12:40 PM
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Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Turtle Skins

Source: Denverchannel.com (Channel 7 ABC Denver)

DENVER -- A McAllen, Texas, man pleaded guilty to smuggling exotic animal skins in a case involving a bootmaker to world leaders like President George W. Bush.

Federal prosecutors said Oscar Cueva pleaded guilty Friday in Denver to a felony count of conspiracy to smuggle protected sea turtle and other exotic skin and skin products, and to launder funds in support of that smuggling.

Among those facing similar charges is Martin Villegas, a Mexican bootmaker to world leaders.

Cueva was one of 11 people indicted in August after a multiyear investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Read more: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15090544/detail.html

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pleah

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Sat Jan-19-08 04:08 PM
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1. What is with these dumb m##her f@*kers that want to kill and skin things?

WTF is wrong with people?!

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Sal Minella

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Sat Jan-19-08 05:38 PM
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2. Can I order some Cueva-skin boots? Please?

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Sun Jan-20-08 03:50 PM
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4. Seconded.

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Heywood J

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Sat Jan-19-08 06:47 PM
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3. So his boots are made from endangered species,

and in Mexico no less. I guess good cowboy boots really aren't worth paying any of the three hundred million citizens of his own country to make them.

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