Man Illegally collects Ricordea from Puerto Rico worth $90,000 USD

[Reef Builders]

Luis Joel Vargas Martell (Vargas) was the co-owner of a home-based saltwater aquarium business, Carebbean Reefers (spelling error intentional) that also operated online through the EBay store “Redragon1975”. A large part of the business was devoted to the sale of native Puerto Rican marine species that are popular in the saltwater aquarium trade. On Monday,…
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[PBnJOnWheat]

Luis Joel Vargas Martell (Vargas) was the co-owner of a home-based saltwater aquarium business, Carebbean Reefers (spelling error intentional) that also operated online through the EBay store “Redragon1975”. A large part of the business was devoted to the sale of native Puerto Rican marine species that are popular in the saltwater aquarium trade. On Monday,…
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My favorite post ever on this forum!! Super cool I wanna see the ricordia coral though because I’ve only ever seen $50> or less ricordia lol

 

[flampton]

My favorite post ever on this forum!! Super cool I wanna see the ricordia coral though because I’ve only ever seen $50> or less ricordia lol

40 shipments so I'm guessing they're using wholesale prices so probably like ten-twentydollars. So probably sent 4500-9000 or so ricordea to the states for resale. (Maybe they do street value like drugs so let's say 50 a piece which is still 1800 ricordea illegally smuggled.

Great job nailing this guy!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Yikes

 

[PBnJOnWheat]

40 shipments so I'm guessing they're using wholesale prices so probably like ten-twentydollars. So probably sent 4500-9000 or so ricordea to the states for resale. (Maybe they do street value like drugs so let's say 50 a piece which is still 1800 ricordea illegally smuggled.

Great job nailing this guy!

Ikr get them locked up!! Imagine being able to say you have an illegal ricordia ;Lurking;Happy;Pompus

 

[User1]

Will be interesting to see who gets a lighter sentence... College admission scandal or poaching.

 

[zylorn]

Really curious about the kind of smuggling that really goes on out there. Like what was going on that forced the indo ban.

 

[Homewrecker]

Every couple years someone gets caught doing this

 

[45ZoaGarden]

I thought you can legally collect ricordea... that’s in Florida anyway, not sure about Puerto Rico. You can only collect a few, nothing like that lol