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Bruce Bivins Pleads Guilty to Stealing... Sea Turtle Eggs?

By Pete Kotz in Animal Cruelty
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 7:10 am
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The serial egg thief of West Palm Beach
​In the north, the preferred method of scraping by in a wretched economy is to bust into abandoned homes and steal the copper piping to sell as scrap. But in the tropical paradise that is South Florida, there's a less strenuous way to earn: stealing endangered sea turtle eggs.

In May, 52-year-old Bruce Bivins was caught in West Palm Beach with a bag of 119 eggs. As police approached, he chucked the sack and started running. But his wheels proved insufficient, and he was nabbed by the cops.

The eggs can fetch as much as $35 a dozen on the Florida black market because some people believe they're an aphrodisiac. But swiping them is a felony, punishable by five years. And since Bivins was caught for the same crime in 1997, we're guessing momma sea turtles will get a break from Bivins for the next few years.


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