Man caught with turtles in his pants, marmot taped to body
Man caught with turtles in his pants, marmot taped to body
2026-11-04
A shocking smuggling attempt was uncovered at in Kinmen. A man arriving from China by ferry was caught with eight protected turtles and a live marmot secretly strapped to his body. The turtles were wrapped tightly in pantyhoses and attached to the man’s groin area, while the marmot was drugged asleep and taped to his body in a package.
A man with a big duffle bag and a satchel is escorted by Coast Guard officials for a searched. He’s smuggling something, but that something is not in his bags. It’s on his body.
A black package was found in his groin. After ripping off layer upon layer of packaging, officers found eight turtles tightly wrapped in stockings. They were all endangered black-breasted leaf turtles, a Class II protected species in China.
Smugglers stood to make a tidy profit from the turtles, which can be purchased for just NT$200 in China and sold in the black market in Taiwan for as much as NT$30,000. If the sellers manage to pass them off as rare Japanese ground tortoises, which look similar, they can each fetch more than NT$75,000.
And it didn’t stop there. The man also had a white package taped to his body. Officials removed it and opened it up to reveal a 30cm marmot. The mammal had been drugged asleep and later tied to the smuggler’s body. Fortunately, it was discovered just in time.
Kuo Hui-chen
Coast Guard Administration Spokesperson
There has recently been a string of cases of travelers smuggling live animals to Kinmen. The suspect in the latest case was a man surnamed Chiu, who arrived from Quanzhou in China. The case has been referred to the Kinmen District Prosecutors office for investigation for violations of the Act on Wildlife Conservation and the Act on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Animal Diseases.
The smuggler is 55-year-old Mr. Chiu, with household registration in Kaohsiung. He tried to smuggle animals from China into Taiwan via Kinmen, harming the animals and potentially bringing in foreign diseases. The Coast Guard Administration urges the public to not buy animals of unknown origin. That’s especially the case of marmots, which can carry the pneumonic plague, which has a mortality rate of almost 100%.
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小三通爆"人體運輸走私" 絲襪蟬8龜.土撥鼠被灌安眠藥
2026-11-04
金門海巡查獲一起透過小三通的離譜走私案，一名邱姓男子從中國泉州搭船入境，竟然把8隻保育類、黑胸葉龜，用絲襪一隻隻緊緊包裹，藏在大腿內側，另外還有一隻土撥鼠，被灌食安眠藥迷昏後，同樣綑綁在身上企圖闖關，簡直把自己當成「人體運輸機」。
嫌犯提著兩個深色大袋子，在海巡人員戒護下接受搜查，不過，真正的走私貨物，根本不在袋子裡，而是藏在他的身上。
海巡人員從嫌犯鼠蹊部搜出黑色包裹，拆開層層包裝，裡頭竟然是一隻隻被絲襪緊緊包住的烏龜，總共8隻，全是二級保育類黑胸葉龜。
嫌犯鋌而走險，就是看準活體動物的龐大利潤，黑胸葉龜在中國收購價每隻約200元，走私回台，黑市行情最高可達3萬元，若魚目混珠，冒充外型相似的稀有日本地龜，價格甚至可能超過7萬5千元，暴利驚人。
不只如此，嫌犯身上還藏著一個白色包裹，海巡人員撕開膠帶，發現裡頭竟然是一隻長約30公分的土撥鼠，先是被灌食安眠藥迷昏，再綑綁藏匿在身上，直到被海巡人員發現，才重見天日。
[[海巡署新聞發言人 郭慧珍]]
“由於近期金門地區頻繁發生旅客違法夾帶活體動物入境，最終鎖定自(中國)泉州入境的邱姓男子。全案因違反野生動物保育法及動物傳染病防治條例，移送金門地檢署偵辦。”
戶籍設在高雄的55歲邱姓男子，透過金門小三通走私，不只嚴重傷害動物，也可能把境外疫病帶進台灣，海巡署呼籲，民眾切勿購買來路不明的野生動物，尤其土撥鼠是肺鼠疫的宿主，一旦感染，致死率百分之百，不僅破壞生態，也會危及國人健康。
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