Chinese woman caught smuggling turtles across Vermont lake to Canada

CANAAN, Vermont: A Chinese woman has been arrested for attempting to smuggle 29 protected eastern box turtles into Canada via kayak at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec, according to Border Patrol agents.

Wan Yee Ng was apprehended on June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan, Vermont, just as she was about to board an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace.

The arrest followed a tip-off from the Royal Ca