An Oxnard man pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 1,700 animals into the U.S. over a six-year period, some in his pants, according to prosecutors.
At a border crossing between the United States and Mexico, border officials said they found 60 reptiles in an Oxnard man’s pockets in February. He claimed they were his pets.smuggling more than 1,700 wild animals
Perez, who also went by the alias Julio Rodriguez, used social media to arrange his smuggling operation between January 2016 through February 2022, which focused primarily on smuggling reptiles into the U.S. from Mexico and Hong Kong, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles. Those reptiles included baby crocodiles, Yucatan box turtles, Mexican bearded lizards and many more animals, prosecutors said.
From February 2021 through February 2022, Perez crossed the San Ysidro Port of Entry roughly 36 times after he rented a home in Tijuana. On Feb. 25, Perez told border officials he had nothing to declare, but was directed to a second screening area, where he was told that they would perform a physical search, according to prosecutors.
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