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Fu Yiner pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to smuggling in connection with his sale and shipment of internationally protected sea-turtle shell and shell products from China.
Fu and 10 others were indicted in August following a multiyear undercover investigation conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Branch of Special Operations.
Fu knowingly sent four shipments of raw shell and guitar picks made from the shell of Hawksbill sea turtles, an endangered species, from China to undercover agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service working in Colorado during 2006 and 2007, according to the plea agreement.
The 5 kilograms of unworked shell and 300 guitar picks together were valued at more than $3,000.
