Two men from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy and Lacey Act charges related to trafficking wildlife from DRC to Seattle. FOX13
Herdade Lokua, 34, and Jospin Mujangi, 32, admitted that beginning in November 2019, they agreed to smuggle elephant ivory, white rhinoceros horn and pangolin scales to the United States. Authorities said they worked with a middleman to negotiate sales and coordinate imports to Seattle.
The two defendants traveled to Seattle on November 2, 2021, to meet with prospective buyers who were actually undercover federal agents. After negotiating the details of a large shipment of wildlife, agents arrested both men inPolice: 2 men arrested in Edmonds for trying to sell $3.5M worth of poached ivory, rhino horn
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