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一 |     本报讯 记者陈晶涛报道 4月13日，区委副书记、区长李彪带队到高桥镇调研指导全区“五经普”普查登记工作。

二 |          　　李彪一行先后来到高桥镇多家企业，详细了解普查对象、报表数据采集等情况，引导经营主体积极配合登记，并叮嘱相关部门要做好登记指导，全面摸清经济“家底”。李彪强调，要确保数据质量，紧盯时间节点，严格执行工作流程规范，从源头上保障数据质量，客观真实地摸清家底，以高质量普查服务高质量发展。要压实各方责任，各部门密切配合，进一步优化工作流程，形成强大工作合力，提升普查工作质效，高质量高水平完成普查任务，切实把“五经普”工作作为一次摸清全区经济“家底”、提升服务水平、优化营商环境的良好契机，确保应统尽统、数据真实，全面客观反映南票区经济社会发展状况。    MACON, Ga. -- A South Carolina man previously convicted of smuggling protected turtles between the United States and Hong Kong faces new allegations of turtle-related crimes in Georgia. Bibb County sheriff's deputies arrested and jailed Steven Verren Baker, 43, of Holly Hill, South Carolina, on Tuesday and charged him with 15 felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals.No lawyer was listed in Georgia court records for Baker, who remained jailed Friday with bail set at $8,250. His South Carolina lawyer has since died.Deputies were responding to a call about an abandoned dog in Macon when they noticed turtles being held in a basin nestled in a pile of trash, WMAZ-TV reports. They wrote in an incident report that a woman identified as Baker's mother told deputies that Baker had left the turtles with her about two months ago. The mother agreed to hand the turtles over to deputies, saying she had been unable to get her son to retrieve them.A veterinarian said the turtles were suffering from long-term malnutrition, bacterial and fungal infections, sepsis and shell deformities.The turtles included 11 rare albino red-eared sliders, one brown red-eared slider and two pink-bellied side necks. There was also a Chinese golden thread turtle, which is considered endangered in the wild, but is legal to breed in captivity.Baker pleaded guilty in 2018 to one count of conspiracy to smuggle wildlife in federal court in South Carolina after postal inspectors at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York found 46 turtles concealed among noodles and candy in four packages in early 2016. The turtles would be placed in socks and shipped through the mail in boxes labeled “snacks.”Five other men pleaded guilty in the South Carolina court case, but officials described Baker as the ringleader. Federal officials say Baker was sending turtles from the United States to Hong Kong, as well as receiving turtles from Hong Kong. It's illegal to trade turtles abroad without a permit when they are protected by a treaty called the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.Baker served more than two years in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release that ended in April 2022.Baker was also ordered to forfeit $263,225, which is what officials said the turtles were worth.。