Wildlife refuge owner given house arrest, fine
BCR | July 25, 2006 1 View 0 Likes 0 Ratings
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AMARILLO, Texas The owner of an Amarillo wildlife refuge who offered to illegally transport endangered animals to another state has been fined two-thousand dollars.
Records show Charlie Azzopardi also must spend 180 days in home confinement and later serve three years of probation.
A federal magistrate in Amarillo on Friday sentenced Azzopardi.
Azzopardi pleaded guilty in March to a misdemeanor charge of offering to deliver two clouded leopards and a white tiger cub from Amarillo to Clinton, Oklahoma, for sale.
He didn’t immediately return a call today for comment.
Information from the Amarillo Globe-News, http://www.amarillo.com
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