All three animals are protected by federal law.
U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler of Anchorage says 43-year-old George Dongdong Jia, of Oak Ridge, was convicted of one felony count and two misdemeanor counts of violating the Lacey Act. In a plea agreement, Jia admitted illegally selling a polar bear hide, a walrus tusk and a black rhinoceros foot online to an undercover U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent.
Loeffler says that as part of the sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, Jia forfeited other illegally possessed animal parts, including parts and skins of tiger and marine mammals and rhinoceros horns.
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