Donald Schultz, the former host of a popular Animal Planet TV show featuring some of the world’s deadliest creatures, was sentenced in a California federal court on Tuesday to community service and US$9,000 (RM30,000) in fines for selling two endangered lizards online.
Schultz had pleaded guilty last year to trying to sell the desert monitor lizards to an undercover federal agent who answered a 2010 online ad seeking about US$3,000 for the reptiles, according to officials at US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
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