A casual conversation on a 2023 flight exposed several wildlife crimes committed by three Northern California residents, ...
The passengers also showed the officers the skull of an endangered sea turtle they were smuggling ... belonged to Mr. Fitzpatrick’s uncle, Harry Vern Fitzpatrick, that had stuffed mountain ...
and Vern Fitzpatrick for poaching crimes. Other violations, such as the unlawful possession of the sea turtle skull, deer parts, and owl violations were turned over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...