A Florida man, who owns a reptile shop ... John Michael Kreatsoulas, 36, admitted to trafficking turtles and falsifying documents from July 2015 to July 2021, according to court documents filed ...

SPRING HILL, Fla. (CBS12) — A 48-year-old man from central Florida was given federal prison time for trafficking a variety of turtles. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Monday ...

which prohibits trafficking of illegally taken wildlife, fish, and plants. Prosecutors claimed that between 2015 and 2019, Kreatsoulas plucked turtles from the wild in Florida and shipped them to ...

(WFLA) — A Florida man pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of turtles to Germany and Hong ... which prohibits the trafficking of illegally taken wildlife, fish, or plants.

(WFLA) — A Spring Hill man pleaded guilty on Friday to charges related to trafficking ... There were 120 turtles unlawfully in his possession. The turtles included Florida box turtles ...

In one case, Fazi “bound the turtles in socks and shipped them to [a buyer] in Florida ... man poached wild turtles and sold them on Facebook, in violation of a federal law that prohibits ...

A Florida man ... exporting thousands of turtles overseas. John Michael Kreatsoulas, 36, of Alva, Florida, made headlines on Feb. 28, when the Department of Justice announced he had pleaded guilty to ...