Texas Woman Caught with 40 Live Queen Conch in Florida Keys

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In chronological order.

(1) Gwen Filosa, Texas Woman Caught with 40 Queen Conch. FlKeysNews.com (a subsidiary of Miami Herald, July 15, 2018.
http://www.flkeysnews.com/news/local/crime/article161556983.html

(2) Gwen Filosa, She Said She Didn't Know It Was Illegal to Take Conchs. She's Heading to Jail Anyway. Miami Herald, July 17, 2018 (online time).
https://www.miamiherald.com/news ... ticle215027715.html
("A Texas woman will spend 15 days in jail * * * Fiscal-Gonzalez received credit for one day of time served [even though on the day of arrest, she was in custody for four hours only].  [Judge Mark] Wilson cut her a break by withholding adjudication, which means she won’t have a criminal conviction on her record.  Fiscal-Gonzalez will also serve six months of probation and pay a $500 fine plus $268 for court costs

My comment:
(a) Lobatus gigas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobatus_gigas
(commonly known as the queen conch; reaching up to 35.2 centimetres (13.9 in) in shell length; section 4 Ecology, section 4.1 Distribution (map) )
(b) What the woman took were live queen conch; is legal in Florida to pick up empty queen conch.
(c) It is prudent for a tourist to know the local laws before recreational fishing, which requires a license in Massachusetts. Yes, local police officers frequently ignore it, but once in a while * * *