A woman from China was arrested at a Vermont lake that borders Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to Border Patrol agents. Wan Yee Ng was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan, Vermont, as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace, according to an agent’s affidavit which was filed in federal court. Agents had been notified by Royal Canadian Mounted Police that two other people, including a man who was believed to be her husband, had started to paddle an inflatable watercraft from the Canadian side of the lake toward the United States, according to an agent’s affidavit. The agents found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks in a duffle bag, the affidavit states. Eastern box turtles can be sold on the Chinese black market for $1,000 each, the affidavit said. Ng was charged with attempting to export the turtles from the U.S., in violation of the Endangered Species Act.