Finally The Sentence Has Come Out...

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jlnguyen74

jlnguyen74

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United Species of Arowana
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/11/13/state/n181925S88.DTL

(11-13) 18:19 PST Los Angeles (AP) --
A Southern California man convicted of participating in a smuggling group that brought an endangered species of fish from Southeast Asia into the United States was sentenced Tuesday to a year in federal prison.

Bruce Penny, 37, of Cypress pleaded guilty earlier this year to a conspiracy charge. As part of his plea, he admitted selling several rare Asian Arowanas, commonly called "dragon" or "lucky" fish, to a man in New York, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

Two co-conspirators have been sentenced in the case. Anthony Robles, 30, of Carson, was sentenced to three years probation and six months of home detention for selling several Arowanas to Penny and helping him ship the fish to New York, authorities said.

Peter Wu, 43, of Rowland Heights, was sentenced to three years probation.

Arowanas are indigenous to Southeast Asia and grow up to three feet. They can sell for thousands of dollars on the black market.
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Poor Peter I personally have met this guy....it's good that's what he only got.
 
I'd love to have an Asian Aro, but people who break the law within the hobby are harmful to the hobby. He's lucky that's all he got.
 
*KrAmEr*;1279794; said:
What Bull**** he got charged for smuggling in fish which are farm bred in there 1000s, it's just a fish.....
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Im in favour of penalites for invasive fish that destroy habitats, but an asian arowana?:ROFL:
 
Every time one of these cases ends up in court, it gives the opposition more ammo not to legalize them.
 
at the end of the day the law is the law you brake it you pay the price
 
This guy gets a year in prison over a fish. There are guys walking the streets in my community that have severely abused children...that I cannot get prosecuted...and they havent seen a day in jail.

But we got that dangerous fish smuggler locked away...he will no longer be a threat to soceity.

Something is twisted.
 
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