Chocolate, potato chips and other colored snacks that arrived from Japan from Japan as a cargo at the Los Angeles International Airport looked attractive.
In this shipment, though, the store shelf was not to target. US Customs and Border Protection Agriculture experts discovered 37 giant burns hidden inside breakfast bags and containers, and agency officials said this week that most of the pests were likely for foreign insect deposits. –
He said the burning cost was about $ 1,500. The agency said the illegally smuggled insects included Skarbbing, Stagbling and Dark Beetrandra.
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Most live insects in the United States – including spiders and scorpions – imports to import Without permission From the Fish and Wildlife Service. The US Department of Agriculture also Required Authorization Some living invertebrates, such as worms and slows down.
In addition, there are many risks to the environment and agriculture when an insect is introduced to a place where it does not naturally belong to, experts foiled five years ago from East Asia to Washington State ” “Referring to the accidental introduction of the accident. .
“You are probably moving beyond your opinion,” said Lin Komsi, a specialist at the Boart Museum of Antomology at the University of California, Davis. “These bridges are not becoming a problem, but they may have other things that cause problems.”
He said that at the International Airport in Los Angeles last month, agriculture experts saw in the X -ray that a shipment from Japan showed some breakfast bags and a second package inside containers.
Mr Ramierz said, “Once you get it out, you pick it up, and it does not feel like a cracker bag of chips or cookies, then you have to take a more thorough test to see. “
At the same time when they found direct burns from the inside. They removed the insects and the Department of Agriculture Take Take it. Keep
Mr Ramierz said, “We safe to make sure that none of them are trying to escape,” said Mr. Check your way. “
Illegal goods smuggling and false labeling packages are federal crimes. The penalties can have a maximum of 25 years in prison, large fines and luggage.
Although no allegations have been made in this case, if investigators have been discovered, federal smuggling allegations will be considered. In this case, the importer is likely to receive a warning letter.
Despite the potential threats to the environment, the illegal trade of pets is flourishing. Federal data shows that customs and border protection stopped 1,151 shipments of live pests from 2000 to 2024, and they only stopped 432 in 2024, federal data showed. Customs officials said there were probably dozens of insects in each shipment.
Dr. Kumsi said, “There is a huge market for such goods.” I know it seems strange, but there are people who have pets. They are really willing to pay a lot of money for significant things. They are big, they are foreign, and no one has.
Beatle’s trade is mostly a black market. “The average person may not want to do anything with him,” he said.
But, globally, the foreign pet trade is a billions of dollars, and the trade in Wildlife is between $ 30 and $ 43 billion annually. A 2022 report Through an animal legal and historical center at Law School of Michigan State University. The author of the report, Asia Saif, said that about $ 23 billion is legal to the shares.
Statistics show that the Customs Agency occupied more than 200 agricultural pests daily in 2023.
The agents cannot inspect each package, but their historical data gives them a framework when it comes to suspicious packages. Many Asian countries’ package plants and animal pathogens as well as pests, said Mr Ramirz, chief of the Customs Bureau’s Agriculture Department in Los Angeles.
Mr Raees said that as far as a long journey from Japan has been made, he will be brought to the local zoo that has permits for him.
