"has sentenced Manuel G. Arias Silva, a Peruvian national, for his role in a conspiracy to import into the U.S. protected orchid specimens,..."
Wow, just wow. The grandfather was thrown in jail for conspiracy to import flowers? Well, you heard it people, whoever wanted to have a flower importing start up maybe you should choose something else... something less fraught with danger and less tainted with the musk of criminality!
Foreign species invasion has had crippling effects on North American ecosystems. So this could actually be a pretty big deal.
Also, most crimes of "danger" are state-level crimes, not federal level crimes. Federal crimes, by and large, are the boring crimes you don't see on Law&Order or CSI.
Wow, just wow. The grandfather was thrown in jail for conspiracy to import flowers? Well, you heard it people, whoever wanted to have a flower importing start up maybe you should choose something else... something less fraught with danger and less tainted with the musk of criminality!