{"id":48855,"date":"2022-01-22T20:50:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T04:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=48855"},"modified":"2022-01-22T20:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T04:50:32","slug":"south-korean-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison-for-illegally-exporting-wild-succulent-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=48855","title":{"rendered":"South Korean Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Illegally Exporting Wild Succulent Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>\u00a0LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1057 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">A South Korean national was sentenced this week to two years in federal prison for attempting to illegally export to Asia live Dudleya succulent plants worth at least $150,000, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">He and his co-schemers had pulled out of the ground at remote state parks in Northern California, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Byungsu Kim, 46, was sentenced by United States District Judge George H. Wu, who also ordered him to pay $3,985 in restitution to the State of California for expenses related to replanting the stolen plants after his arrest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Kim pleaded guilty in September 2021 to one count of attempting to export plants taken in violation of state law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On October 11, 2018, Kim and co-defendants Youngin Back, 47, and Bong Jun Kim, 46, traveled by car from Los Angeles International Airport to Crescent City, California. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/photo-by-carl-newton\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48857\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48857 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7mhrepca3la-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"green leafed plants under sunny sky\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7mhrepca3la-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7mhrepca3la-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7mhrepca3la-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7mhrepca3la-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7mhrepca3la.jpg 1598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>From October 14 to October 16, Kim and the co-defendants harvested numerous Dudleya plants from DeMartin State Beach in Klamath, California, and from Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kim knew the taking of the Dudleya plants was unlawful.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">He had conducted internet searches on his smartphone for \u201cpoaching succulents\u201d and \u201cdudleya\u201d and had read a press release regarding the arrest and convictions of three other Dudleya poachers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On October 22, 2018, Kim and the co-defendants traveled from Northern California to a nursery in Vista and unloaded the Dudleya plants that they had poached during the previous week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The following day, the men traveled to Russian Gulch State Park in Mendocino County, where, wearing backpacks and using hand-held radios to communicate, they pulled additional Dudleya plants out of the ground before returning once again to the Vista nursery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prior to the plants\u2019 shipment, Kim scheduled an inspection with a county agriculture official at the Vista nursery and falsely told her the government-issued certificate necessary for the plants\u2019 exportation should list 1,397 Dudleya plants (259 pounds\/117.5 kilograms) for export to South Korea, officials stated. Also, he said that the \u201cplace of origin\u201d of the plants was San Diego County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The defendants then transported the plants to a commercial exporter in Compton, to whom Kim intended to present the fraudulently obtained certificate so the Dudleya plants could be smuggled to South Korea. When the defendants left, local law enforcement executed a search warrant at the cargo shipping company and found\u00a0 3,715 Dudleya plants in boxes that were labeled \u201cRush\u201d and \u201cLive Plants.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">These were the plants the defendants had pulled out of the ground from public lands in Northern California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At the time that Kim and the co-defendants engaged in the illegal conduct, they did not have a scientific permit nor a federal permit that would allow them to harvest Dudleya plants. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Kim also admitted to being the scheme\u2019s organizer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Although California law enforcement officials had confiscated Kim\u2019s passport following his arrest on state charges relating to his October 2018 conduct, Kim fraudulently obtained a new South Korean passport in January 2019 by falsely claiming to the South Korean Consulate in Los Angeles that he had lost his passport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In May 2019, soon after Kim learned of the federal criminal charges pending against him in this case, he and Back fled to Mexico on foot through the Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Using his fraudulently obtained passport, Kim and Back flew from Mexico to China and then flew from China to South Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kim was arrested in South Africa in October 2019 for charges related to a similar scheme in which he illegally collected plants from protected areas in that nation to export to South Korea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Kim pleaded guilty to the criminal charges in South Africa and was extradited to the U.S. in October 2020 after spending a year in custody there. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">He has remained in federal custody since October 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c[Kim\u2019s] willful criminal conduct in October 2019 was not an isolated event: he had carried out the same scheme repeatedly in California,\u201d prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum. \u201c[Kim] had traveled to the United States more than 50 times since 2009. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Customs records show that he was traveling for succulent-related purposes and often with tens of thousands of dollars in cash (sometimes declared, sometimes not) and fake phytosanitary certificates.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9542252776MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bong Jun Kim pleaded guilty in July 2019 to one count of attempting to export plants taken in violation of state law. 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