Article: Qld: Smuggler wanted to trade reptiles for cattle dog


AAP General News (Australia)
01-25-2006
Qld: Smuggler wanted to trade reptiles for cattle dog

By Johanna Leggatt

BRISBANE, Jan 25 AAP - A Japanese man has smuggled 39 exotic reptiles worth around
$20,000 into Australia because he was promised a champion cattle dog in return, a court
has been told.

Katsuhide Naito, 40, pleaded guilty in the District Court in Brisbane today to one
count of importing a species without a permit and one count of importing regulated live
specimens without a permit.

Naito was arrested at Brisbane Airport on August 22 last year, following a flight from
Bangkok, after customs officers found a host of exotic reptiles in his bag including tree
monitors, pythons, ...

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