New Yorker Gets 2 Years for Trafficking Rhino Horns

WASHINGTON (CN) – A federal judge handed a two-year prison sentence Monday to a New York art dealer who illegally trafficked horns from endangered black rhinoceros.

Fengyi Zhou, of Syosset, New York, admitted previously to purchasing as many as five uncarved rhinoceros horns from another Asian arts dealer in New York.

Because he was given an “Endangered Species Bill of Sale” along with the horns, prosecutors say Zhou was aware that four of the horns were purchased in Texas and unlawfully transported to New York.

Zhou tried to turn the horns over immediately, trying to sell them an associate living in China for more than $130,000.

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