Posted by on October 10, 2004 at 04:15:01:
Abalone bust: Greed drives wildlife crime, and in the latest in a series of abalone busts, Fish and Game wardens arrested four more suspects from the Bay Area in what the DFG says was a complex abalone poaching ring. The DFG said wardens arrested Li Sheng Chen, 52, of San Francisco, identified as the ringleader, and Wu Qiang Zhang, 40, Nichole Zhang Li, 43, and Betty Ai Hang Guo, 30, all of San Francisco, and booked them in county jails with $10,000 bail. Each faces a $40,000 fine and year in county jail, said DFG.