Snack-Packed Turtle Smugglers’ Motives Unclear [LAist]
The smugglers, 39-year-old Atsushi Yamagami, and 49-year-old Norihide Ushirozako, of Osaka, Japan have been charged with “illegally importing wildlife into the United States,” for which they could be sentenced to “a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison” if convicted.
No mention of how much stolen money was spent on this year or more long “investigation.”
For comparison, the thug who murdered Oscar Grant in the middle of a crowded subway station in Oakland on New Year’s Day in 2009 was sentenced to a year and a half in prison. But of course the murderer was wearing a clown suit, and that makes all the difference.
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