3,000 turtle eggs smuggled into Sabah seized


Caught red-handed: The suspect is seen with sacks of turtle eggs in the waters off Sandakan.

KOTA KINABALU: Some 3,000 eggs of endangered turtles were seized by a police border patrol from a boatman who was trying to slip into Sandakan waters on Sabah’s east coast.

Sandakan General Operations Force (GOF) Battalion 15 commander Supt Toipi Lamat said the 31-year-old suspect was arrested after his boat was intercepted in the waters off Nunuyan Darat at about 8.30pm on Saturday.

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