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Environmental

Jan. 10, 2012

Nine charged with selling protected wildlife online

The U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles announced Friday it had charged nine people with illegally selling protected wildlife over the Internet.

By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles announced Friday it had charged nine people with illegally selling protected wildlife over the Internet.

The cases are a result of an undercover sting operation dubbed "Operation Cyberwild" run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state Department of Fish and Game and nonprofit Humane Society last year where several people in Southern California and Nevada allegedly placed Inte...

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