Piranha bust in California

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Im watching this show about park rangers in California and they do a raid on a piranha dealers house. They have like 15 officers all armed and makin it just like a huge drug bust. The guy was selling like 5 red bellie baby's for 310 dollars. The guy was only like 15 And he admitted to selling more earlier in the week. I think that's way over kill for a "piranha feeler bust" and way to expensive for rbp. What do you guys think
 
Overkill or not, it's the way it is. Cali is looking to stem the trade in illegal species. Count on every bust being big news and the defendants recieving max penalties to make them 'examples' for others.
 
Honesty, California has too much time on their hands. Funny thing is that there are more illegal species in California than any states.
 
A former member of the site was busted for having 20 FL gars in his possession. The fines, not counting court fees and attorney fees, was $500 per gar. That's a 10 grand penalty for keeping illegal species. In my book, not worth it.

I was hit up by inspectors about a decade ago. I unknowingly had illegal species in my possession. When I relocated to MS from WA, I didn't check the states laws in MS and was hit for thousands in penalties. I also had to go to court to plead for keeping my hatchery licenses. That cost about as much as the fines but, I was able to convince the court that there would be no repeat of the offenses.

This is the main reason I researched all state regulations and put together the Restricted Species Lists by state in the Marketplace sticky section. I don't want other hobbyists to have to go through what I went through.
 
Awesome how my Californian tax dollars are being spent, how about stoping the real drug bust and are buddies in Mexico(from crossing ILLEGALLY)... but that punk deserved to be busted! My lfs sells red bellies for only $15 a pop! ;) talk about over priced, like everything in Cali anyway

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Again, the dollars spent in drug busts and illegals are not the same dollars used by F&G. They too receive operational budgets and funds are allocated for enforcement. If enforcement wasn't necessary, more money would be available for park features, nature centers, increased sport fish stocking, etc.
 
Oddball said:
A former member of the site was busted for having 20 FL gars in his possession. The fines, not counting court fees and attorney fees, was $500 per gar. That's a 10 grand penalty for keeping illegal species. In my book, not worth it.

I was hit up by inspectors about a decade ago. I unknowingly had illegal species in my possession. When I relocated to MS from WA, I didn't check the states laws in MS and was hit for thousands in penalties. I also had to go to court to plead for keeping my hatchery licenses. That cost about as much as the fines but, I was able to convince the court that there would be no repeat of the offenses.

This is the main reason I researched all state regulations and put together the Restricted Species Lists by state in the Marketplace sticky section. I don't want other hobbyists to have to go through what I went through.
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Thanks for the sticky, got to go check it out.
 
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