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A Hong Kong man pleaded guilty Friday to trafficking eastern box turtles from Southern California to China after wildlife inspectors discovered the endangered animals inside packages at a Torrance ...

A 54-year-old Hong Kong man was sentenced on Friday, March 14, in downtown Los Angeles to two years and six months behind bars after wildlife inspectors at a Torrance mail facility intercepted ...

TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...