TYLER, Texas — The Department of Justice issued a news release regarding the indictment of a 53-year-old Dallas resident charged with smuggling dead hummingbirds from Mexico on May 14, 2014. According to the indictment, an estimated 61 dead hummingbirds, of various varieties, were unlawfully imported into the United States for sale from February 2013 through January 2014. The five-count indictment specifically alleges that the importation of dead hummingbirds violates the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), the Lacey Act, the federal smuggling law, and Texas State Law. This case is being investigated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Noble.
Read news coverage on this case:
http://www.wafb.com/story/25538085/dallas-man-indicted-for-smuggling-dead-hummingbirds-from-mexico
http://www.kltv.com/story/25538085/dallas-man-indicted-for-smuggling-dead-hummingbirds-from-mexico
