A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak.

Wan Yee Ng, 41, was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace, according to a Border Patrol agent’s affidavit filed in federal court.

Agents had been notified by Royal Canadian Mounted Police that two other people, including a man who was believed to be her husband, had started to paddle an inflatable watercraft from the Canadian side of the lake toward the United States, according to court documents.

The agents searched her heavy duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks, the affidavit states. Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market for $1,000 each, the affidavit stated.

Her cellphone was seized, and a search by law enforcement found communications showing that she tried to smuggle the turtles into Canada so that they could eventually be sold for a profit in Hong Kong, according to the plea agreement. Ng, from Hong Kong, was living in Canada.

She pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of unlawfully attempting to export and send 29 eastern box turtles out of the United States, contrary to law. VTDigger first reported on the plea deal.

She is scheduled to be sentenced in December and faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Nearly a dozen people were taken to a hospital in Central Pennsylvania on Friday night after eating “toxic mushrooms,” a local fire company said.

The “mass casualty” incident happened on the 200 block of Burke Road in Peach Bottom Township, York County. The township is along the western bank of the Susquehanna River and close to the Maryland border.

“Units were advised that 11 people had ingested toxic mushrooms and were all ill,” the Delta-Cardiff Volunteer Fire Company, Station 57 said on Facebook. Ambulance units were called to the scene from York and Lancaster counties in Pennsylvania and Harford County, Maryland.

Six ambulances took patients to a nearby hospital, the fire company said.

The Pennsylvania State Police were also called to the scene, CBS affiliate WHP-TV in Harrisburg reported.

The Food and Drug Administration recommends consulting with a knowledgable expert to properly identify mushrooms that are safe to eat, and says it’s much safer to get mushrooms from grocery stores or professional mushroom farms.

There are about 250 varieties of poisonous wild mushrooms found across North America, according to the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.