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Theft of sea turtle eggs may land man in prison
Suspect already served time for previous offense
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In this photo taken Tuesday, July 9, 2013, Bill Ahern, a conservation specialist for the Miami-Dade County Parks, holds a loggerhead sea turtle egg on Haulover Beach in Miami. A Georgia man faces returning to prison after pleading guilty a second time to stealing the eggs of protected sea turtles. - photo by Associated Press
SAVANNAH — Less than two years after he was released from prison, Lewis Jackson found authorities waiting for him as he boarded a ferry boat on remote Sapelo Island carrying a cooler full of contraband valued by some as a mythical aphrodisiac. Inside the cooler, investigators found zip-top bags filled with the ping-pong ball sized eggs of loggerhead sea turtles, animals protected by the Endangered Species Act. Stealing eggs of the threatened species is a federal crime.
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