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‘Sophisticated fish trafficker’ gets year in prison, but it’s no ‘bald eagle’

A former West Hills resident who attempted to export a protected South American air-breathing fish species into Canada from the United States without the proper permits was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison. The defendant’s attorney downplayed the importance of the protected species, calling it “kind of a garbage fish.” But the attorney’s claims […]

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