Jailed and fined for having 19,000 green turtle eggs


Crime doesn’t pay: Policemen escorting (from second left) Impang, Pikong and Totoh from court.

SANDAKAN: Three Filipinos were jailed between two and four years and given hefty fines by a Sessions Court here for possessing 19,000 eggs of the endangered green turtle.

The three – Pikong Ismail, 23, Totoh Susuk, 35, and Impang Utuk, 45 – pleaded guilty to the offences before Sessions Court judge Ummu Kalthom Abdul Samad here yesterday.

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