Florida man pleads guilty to sale of protected leopards

Wednesday, August 14, 2002

Timothy D. Rivers, owner of Animals in Motion Animal Park in Citra, Fla., pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in St. Louis to illegally selling two federally protected black leopards. The sale was a misdemeanor violation of the Lacey Act, a federal wildlife protection law.

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