Black market Dudleyas can sell for up to $1,000 each.
The leader of an international plant poaching ring has pleaded guilty to digging up thousands of succulents from remote state parks in California to ship to Asia to sell for giant profits, federal prosecutors said.
“Local law enforcement then executed a search warrant on the cargo, and found more than 3,000 Dudleyas inside, prosecutors said.” Before attempting to ship the plants to Korea, Kim made arrangements for a local agriculture inspector to come to the nursery to fill out the requisite paperwork. But prosecutors say he told the inspector that the shipment contained only about 1,400 Dudleya plants and that all of them had come from San Diego County.
Kim and his accomplices were arrested on state smuggling charges and Kim had his Korean passport confiscated by the court. But in January 2019, Kim allegedly obtained a new passport form the South Korean consulate by claiming he had lost his original.
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