It seems like in truth everybody looses with the reptile sting operations. Most cases I know about fall apart or fall very short in terms of prosecution. So in that sense the agency fails, but the public information released paints such a bad light on herpers that we loose even if we win because the real facts never to seem to make it out after the dust settles. All that makes the press are the "investigation from LE point of view" and "bust from LE point of view" and it never seems that the welfare of the seized animals in the care of LE comes to light and the fact that many details for the prosecution of the case do not hold enough water to make it into a court of records in the first place. Oh and as always in any large collection there is that one animal in poor health or just old and frail and that is the one that makes the press release as an "example" instead of any number of healthy happy animals.
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