A tourist filled a bucket with queen conch in the Keys, police say. He went to jail
In the Florida Keys, you could land in jail for keeping undersized lobster tails or swiping protected seafood from the ocean. That’s how seriously police and prosecutors go after people who break conservation laws. A 51-year-old Houston man learned about that Wednesday after stuffing queen conch in a bucket and inside a shirt, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office./ Tony Ngoc Truong was charged with a misdemeanor for and booked into the county jail. The visitor to the Keys didn’t get far in his conch stealing scheme, deputies said ...
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