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Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:01 AM Oct 2019

Okay DUers, let's give this some National attention


Turtle-poaching cases marked secret; What’s going on?
Arrest records of two Fort Myers men charged last week with poaching thousands of Florida turtles mostly for sale in Asian markets are marked confidential in Lee County court records.

The Phoenix, inquiring whether the men are in custody and the status of their cases, could not reach law-enforcement authorities Wednesday who might answer those questions.

The suspects are Michael Boesenberg, 39, and Michael Clemons, 23, arrested by officers of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission after the officers executed a search warrant.

FWC investigators said Boesenberg ran a sophisticated network of wildlife traffickers based out of Lee County. FWC said the turtles were sold for prices ranging from $300 to $10,000 each, depending on the market for each species and where it was sold.




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Okay DUers, let's give this some National attention (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Oct 2019 OP
Poachers are up there with people who hurt children on my list of SCUM OF THE EARTH ... mr_lebowski Oct 2019 #1
Could their case have been marked confidential as part of a larger investigation . . . Journeyman Oct 2019 #2
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. Poachers are up there with people who hurt children on my list of SCUM OF THE EARTH ...
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:15 AM
Oct 2019

Esp. poachers of threatened or endangered species.

Throw the book at these assholes man ...

Journeyman

(15,036 posts)
2. Could their case have been marked confidential as part of a larger investigation . . .
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:30 AM
Oct 2019

trying either to get more people ensnared in the bust, or to work the way up to whomever is organizing this "sophisticated network of wildlife traffickers"?

I haven't a clue. Just trying to make sense of something beyond my comprehension.

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