{"id":22996,"date":"2021-10-06T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=22996"},"modified":"2021-10-06T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T13:41:35","slug":"lizard-king-charged-with-smuggling-florida-turtles-to-china-japanunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=22996","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lizard King\u2019 charged with smuggling Florida turtles to China, JapanUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA convicted wildlife smuggler who still operates as a leading buyer and seller of reptiles has been accused by federal prosecutors of scheming to smuggle illegally harvested Florida turtles to China, Japan and other places.Michael Van Nostrand, his company, Strictly Reptiles Inc. of Davie, Florida, established network of \u201ccollectors\u201d who searched the Florida wilds for certain freshwater turtle specimens, including the three-stripe mud turtle, the US Attorney\u2019s Office said in a news release.The\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3151417\/lizard-king-charged-smuggling-florida-turtles-china?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA convicted wildlife smuggler who still operates as a leading buyer and seller of reptiles has been accused by federal prosecutors&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}