Crime Bulletin
Cactus Thieves Caught in the Act!
Prosecutors in Mexico have charged two German citizens with wildlife trafficking after they were detained at Mexico City international airport with 543 cacti.
The attorney general’s office… said some of the species found in their four suitcases were considered endangered.
Never pull plants out of the wild, or try to take them out of a country without a proper permit. That would be the lesson, if there were a lesson to be learned, by The Case of the Cactus Smugglers.