BURLINGTON, Vt. — A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak.

Wan Yee Ng, 41, was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace, according to a Border Patrol agent’s affidavit filed in federal court.

U.S. agents had been notified by RCMP that two other people had started to paddle an inflatable watercraft from the Canadian side toward the United States{ai:summary}<p>A woman from China, Wan Yee Ng, pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, from Vermont into Canada by kayak. She was arrested on June 28 while preparing to launch from an Airbnb location.  </p><p>#illegals</p>

Woman pleads guilty to trying to smuggle 29 turtles into Canada by crossing Vermont lake

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