A San Francisco art dealer plead guilty to selling two rhino horns to an undercover agent for $55,000.
The man, Lumsden Quan, was working with Edward Levine of Mill Valley to sell the horns to a federal agent who posed as a wildlife collector. According to SFGate, the two men said they acted as brokers. Quan plead guilty on Friday.
The two horns they sold were of the black rhinoceros, a critically endangered species. The SF Zoo's Twitter superstar, Boone, is also a black rhinoceros. While Boone hasn't commented specifically on this case, he's been a big proponent of rhino conservation on Twitter:
Don't you think my horn does more good on my face than in your medicine?
#AskTheWorldAQuestion #StopKillingRhinos pic.twitter.com/bUBdfJyojR
— Boone SF Rhino (@BooneTheRhino) August 5, 2015
Levine, a previously convicted drug dealer, is awaiting trial and Quan is scheduled to be sentenced in December.