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Criminal

The Butterfly Smuggler

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The first time Ed Newcomer went to the L.A. Bug Fair, he met a man who called himself the world’s most wanted butterfly smuggler. It took three years of undercover work for Ed Newcomer to catch him in the act. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, special merch deals, and more. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.0

oh, I'm going to be protecting tiger cubs and, you know,

1:10.5

we're going to be rescuing

1:12.1

elephants and things like that.

1:14.6

Ed Newcomer worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 20 years.

1:19.1

He started as a special agent.

1:21.4

The very first case that was kind of given to me myself to run was Yoshi-Kojima, who was

1:26.6

what he called himself the world's most wanted

1:30.7

butterfly smuggler.

1:34.1

I mean, this guy, he knew fish and wildlife were after him, and he loved it.

1:40.0

Yoshi Kojima was so good at finding and capturing one specific butterfly in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

1:47.0

that people said no one else could even find any for two years.

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