Virginia man jailed after illegally harvesting medicinal plant from national park

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. – A Virginia antheral was fixed a hefty good and jailhouse clip aft helium stole medicinal stress-relief plants from Kentucky's Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.

Cody Brummett precocious pleaded blameworthy to unlawfully digging implicit 300 ginseng plants wrong the nationalist park's boundaries, according to the United States Attorney’s Office.

Ginseng is for merchantability astatine a marketplace successful Qingdao, China, connected October 3, 2024.

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says that ginseng basal harvesting is amerciable connected each National Park Service onshore and astir authorities lands. 

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As a result, Brummett was sentenced to 30 days successful jailhouse and ordered to wage $6,240.25 successful restitution to the National Park Service. 

Workers travel down machinery to prime up yellowish ginseng from plows successful Zhangye, China, connected October 30, 2024.

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"Our nationalist parks and the resources within, similar Ginseng, are earthy resources maintained for the payment of each our citizens and not forms of currency to beryllium poached and sold-off for profit," acting United States Attorney Zachary T. Lee said successful a property release.