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California man smuggles over 1,700 wild animals into the US by hiding them in clothes, pleas guilty

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A California man who smuggled more than 1,700 wild animals into the United States, by carefully hiding them in his clothing, pleaded guilty this Wednesday. The 30-year-old was identified as Jose Manuel Perez from Oxnard. Reports reveal that Perez paid accomplices a crossing fee to drive animals from Mexico to El Paso, Texas, where he had them shipped to his family's Ventura County home and resold them to customers.