Recently, with the support of the Provincial Public Security Department, the public security organs of Jingzhou City and Shashi District have integrated and combined operations to solve the special wildlife trafficking case and eradicate the largest underground wildlife trading market entrenched in the Jianghan Plain. The number of people involved, the funds involved, the areas involved, the crimes involved, and the tools involved in the case are the largest in similar cases in Hubei.
In April this year, the Shashi Public Security Bureau learned clues that a long-distance bus from Shashi to Guangzhou illegally transported wild animals was seized by Hunan**. The police found 55 boxes of 412 wild birds from the cargo box of the bus, including 144 black water pheasants, 108 night herons, and 160 green-winged ducks.
After investigation, the criminal gang headed by Yuan has long been entrenched in the towns and villages of Jianli City, gathering a number of local and provincial illegal hunters to hunt wild birds, and wantonly buying illegally hunted wild animals from hunters through "buying low and selling high", "buying and selling" and "supplying in other places". A complete criminal chain integrating "hunting, purchasing, transporting, and selling" has surfaced, with concealed methods of committing crimes, involving a large number of people, and a huge amount of money, seriously damaging the local natural ecological environment.
The public security organs at the two levels of Jingzhou City and Shashi District set up a special case team, relying on the integrated synthetic combat mechanism of "intelligence and action", and made every effort to hit the source, end the den, destroy the network, break the chain, and chase the flow direction, so as to investigate and deal with one, bring out a string, and dig out a nest, and successively arrested Yuan and his multiple gang members, hunters, middlemen, restaurant owners, and online sellers, a total of 85 people, seized more than 3,000 wild animals on the spot, verified the flow of funds involved in the case of more than 8 million yuan, and verified the illegal trade of "national three terrestrial wild animals" More than 50,000 pieces (pieces).
Through deep excavation, the police seized more than 4,000 illegal hunting tools such as bird trapping nets, snake trapping nets, sticky sparrow vinyl, bird models, various bird song lists, and electronic trapping equipment in the warehouse of the criminal suspect Deng in Heshan City, Guangdong Province. He confessed to attracting illegal hunting personnel through platforms such as Douyin, and illegally hunted tools and taught illegal hunting methods to nearly 1,000 people in 14 provinces across the country. A special team for the case has been sent out for national investigation.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Shacheng District Public Security Bureau, the case is suspected of several crimes such as illegal hunting, illegal hunting, acquisition, transportation, ** terrestrial wild animals, teaching criminal methods, and illegal possession of firearms. At present, the case is still being further investigated.