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Banned leather smuggler sentenced

28/04/2008

A court in Texas has sentenced a leather trader to 16 months in prison.Carlos Leal, who is from Guzmán in Mexico, was one of seven people caught during an undercover investigation into leather smuggling from Mexico to the United States. He is the first to be sentenced.Specifically, he was found guilty of buying sea turtle hides from Mexican...

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