Concepcion de Leon, NYT

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New Zealand sentences woman caught with cacti on body

Woman intended to sell the plants on online classified advertising site

In an undated image provided by the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries, the cacti and succulents Wenqing Li hid in stockings tied to her body. The woman who tied nearly 1,000 cacti and succulent plants to her body in an attempt to smuggle them into New Zealand in 2019 has been sentenced to 100 hours of community service and 12 months of intensive supervision for violating the country’s biosecurity laws, government officials said.

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