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Man Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Aliens and Tropical Fish

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Travel Agency (AXcess News) New York - This story must be read to be believed. In one of the biggest maritime human smuggling cases in Port of Los Angeles, CA in years, a San Pedro man pleaded guilty this week to federal charges related to his smuggling of both tropical fish and illegal aliens into the United States.

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Cheap Hotel Craig Lightner, 42, pleaded guilty to smuggling protected tropical fish and approximately 70 illegal aliens into the United States. Appearing before United States District Judge Gary A. Feess, Lightner specifically pleaded guilty to encouraging or inducing aliens to enter the United States for financial gain, a charge that carries a penalty of up to 10 years in federal prison.

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Flight Booking In plea agreements filed in United States District Court in Los Angeles, Lightner admitted that he smuggled illegal aliens into the United States on two occasions in August 2004. Using two rented boats -- the 47-foot yacht Soul Mates and the 44-foot yacht C'est La Vie - Lightner was involved in the smuggling of 20 and then 50 illegal immigrants who were transported from Tijuana to Ensenada and then to the Port of Los Angeles.

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Travel Agent The alien smuggling scheme was discovered on August 30, 2004, when the C'est La Vie was stopped and boarded by the United States Coast Guard before approximately 50 aliens were off-loaded in the Port of Los Angeles. The interdiction of the rented French-built yacht by the US Coast Guard represented the largest incident of maritime human smuggling in the Los Angeles area in recent years. The aliens, including a three-year-old boy and a woman in her final month of pregnancy, were crowded into the vessel's small cabin, which was designed to sleep eight people. Two men who manned the C'est La Vie previously pleaded guilty to federal charges and will be sentenced later this year.

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Hotel Chicago In the second case in which he pleaded guilty today, Lightner admitted that he smuggled very rare and expensive tropical fish into the United States. The fish - Clarion Angelfish, which are indigenous to Mexico and can cost up to $2,000 each -- were smuggled into the country in May 2004 through Los Angeles International Airport. In this case, Lightner pleaded guilty to one count of smuggling the tropical fish into the US without declaring them to federal authorities, a crime that carries a maximum possible penalty of five years in prison. The angelfish smuggled into the US being detained at Aquarium of the Pacific, while the illegal aliens are being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Online Booking Sources: US Department of Justice, US Coast Guard, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, National Association of Chiefs of Police

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