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Tue Oct 20, 2020, 12:38 PM

Oct 2020

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/florida-wildlife-investigators-bust-million-dollar-flying-squirrel-trafficking-ring

Florida wildlife investigators bust million-dollar flying squirrel trafficking ring

By FOX 13 News Staff
Published 19 hours ago

BUSHNELL, Fla. - A group of flying squirrel smugglers has been grounded after a 19-month-long investigation that stretched across the country and as far as Asia, Florida wildlife officials say.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced the series of arrests Monday, which disrupted what they called an “elaborate organized enterprise to smuggle Florida’s wildlife to interstate and international buyers.”

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Scum bags, gab13by13 Oct 2020 #1

my da had pet squirrels when he was a kid. mopinko Oct 2020 #2

Now posted in GD, deleting. sl8 Oct 2020 #3