3,000 turtle eggs smuggled into Sabah seized
Caught red-handed: The suspect is seen with sacks of turtle eggs in the waters off Sandakan. KOTA KINABALU: Some 3,000 eggs of endangered turtles were seized by a police border patrol from a boatman who was trying to slip into Sandakan waters on Sabah’s east coast. Sandakan General Operations Force (GOF) Battalion 15 commander Supt Toipi Lamat said the 31-year-old suspect was arrested after his boat was intercepted in the waters off Nunuyan Darat at about 8.30pm on Saturday. He said they believed the suspect tried to slip in during the period for terawih prayers as he thought security force...