Woman who collected queen conch seashells in Florida sentenced to jail
Woman who collected queen conch seashells in Florida sentenced to jail
USA TODAY NETWORKAshley May, USA TODAY Published 11:05 a.m. ET July 18, 2018 | Updated 10:50 a.m. ET July 19, 2018
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/18/tourist-collected-queen-conch-seashells-florida-sent-jail/794883002/
"A Texas tourist who collected 40 queen conchs seashells from Key West, Florida, is going to jail for 15 days.
A Florida judge also sentenced Diana Fiscal-Gonzalez of Dallas to serve six months of probation and pay a $500 fine, plus $268 for court costs, for taking 40 queen conchs from the waters that surround Key West, the Miami Herald reports."
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"Ignorance of the law is no excuse!" I'm curious if she really didn't know that it was illegal, or if just was just claiming to not know...
Yeah, that was my thought. This was not her first time I bet.
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