Two San Jose Women Charged for Illegal Fruit-Trade

General Fruit Growing
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I hope more members here read this article. I also hope there will be more arrests because there are so many people doing this.

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you see ads for exotic fruit on FB marketplace all the time so I guess that’s the venue.

Then again this being Alaska, tropical pests stand the proverbial snowball chance in hell. Not that I’m condoning the practice.

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I hope they are found financially liable for the current Tau Fly abatement effort in CA.

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Hope there are significant penalties for this. They need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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Thanks.

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Those Californians take this stuff very seriously. They used to stop the cars entering the state from I-10 and confiscate the fruits and vegetables.

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Unless something has changed in the last couple years , they still have checkpoints on I-10! They don’t operate them 24/7, but when they are open everyone has to go through them. I was surprised to see that on a road trip a couple years ago.

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I used to commute from Truckee over the line for work for a while- I remember always enjoying telling them I did not have fruit left over from lunch

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