The Fish and Wildlife Service has seized more than $1 million in cash, $1 million in bullion bars, diamonds and Rolex watches, along with 20 rhino horns, in raids on an purported general bootlegging ring that trafficked for years in sawed-off rhinoceros horns.
Much of that was found at Jimmy Kha's import-export business in Westminster, in his safety-deposit boxes and at his Garden Grove home, according to law coercion officials.
More than 150 sovereign agents and other local coercion officers raided homes and businesses and done a few arrests in a dozen states over the weekend, inclusive 3 purported traffickers in Southern California.
Kha, 49, his girlfriend, Mai Nguyen, 41, of Highland, and Kha's son Felix, 26, any face 4 counts of rhino horn trafficking in breach of sovereign laws safeguarding singular and involved species.
The parent and son both sojourn in prison given their arrests final week at Los Angeles International Airport. Nguyen, who owns a spike shop in Highland, is set to be expelled on $50,000 bail. Their attorneys declined comment.
-- Kenneth R. Weiss
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife officers seized this pressed rhinoceros head, with synthetic horns, in a raid at Win Lee Corp. in Westminster. Credit: Katie Falkenberg / For The Times
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