A San Jose business owner has been sentenced to jail after being convicted of illegally importing fruit from Vietnam, which was found to be infested with an invasive fruit fly species, prosecutors said.
Santa Clara Co. District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced Wednesday that 43-year-old Hanh Hong Huynh received a sentence of three months in jail. Huynh was convicted of conspiracy to import and sell fruit in violation of federal and state agricultural laws.A co-conspirator in the case, 38-year-old Thanh Tuyen Huynh, had previously pled guilty to participating in a conspiracy and was sentenced to community service. The two defendants are not related to each other.
The illegal items included langsat or lanzones, which are tropical fruit in the shape of a large grape.Prosecutors said Thanh Huynh ignored calls by local officials to stop selling the fruit, continuing to advertise the items on social media.Some of the items were found to be 'heavily infested' with the larvae of a destructive fruit fly endemic to Southeast Asia, according to the DA's office.
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