Table 2 An example from United States District Court Southern District of New York, Sealed Indictment 19 CRIM 338 (United States of America v. Moazu Kromah, Amara Cherif, Mansur Surur, Abdi Ahmed).
Trafficking Geography | Fields, Subfields & Domain | Selected Example Seen in 19 CRIM 338 | Nature of Spatialized Data (potential format) |
|---|---|---|---|
Source | Country | Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania | Counties where wildlife products originated and/or where the defendants originated to prove interstate commerce occurred (coordinates) |
Place | Cities where alleged offenders resided | (coordinates, time) | |
Status | Dead | (attribute) | |
Species Group | Black rhino, White rhino, African elephant (English and Latin names) | Forensic science by USFWS to prove which species was transported using interstate commerce (attribute) | |
Number of Animals | 35 rhinos, 100 elephants | Weight of rhino horn (190  kg) and weight of elephant ivory (10 tons) to prove degree of injurious wildlife provisions and inform penalties during sentencing (attribute) | |
Transit | Country | Senegal, United States | (coordinates) |
Place | Dakar, New York | Shipping rhino horn from Uganda to Dakar where it would be transported by others to Chinatown in New York helps prove interstate commerce, particularly import without a permit from USFWS (coordinates, time) | |
Animal Status | Dead | (attribute) | |
How Seized | Intercepted exchanged electronic messages including images, intercepted packages, telephone | (attribute, line) | |
How Concealed | Pieces of African art such as masks and statues | (coordinates, attribute) | |
Seizure Crime Scene 1 | Package | (coordinates, attribute) | |
Other Material | Narcotics, money laundering | 10 kg of heroin, false real estate sale, concealed proceeds from sale of narcotics and wildlife in violation of the U.S. Lacey Act, and others (coordinates, polygon, attribute) | |
Origin papers | Image of a shipping document concerning a particular package | Package was intercepted 13 days after image was shared, providing evidence of transport and documentation of lack of permits (coordinates, attribute) | |
Destination | Country | United States, Southeast Asia | (coordinates) |
Place | Manhattan | (coordinates, time) | |
Number of Animal | 1 black rhino horn, 2 white rhino horns | Photographs help provide evidence of the species in question (attribute) | |
Who Collected | USFWS, DEA, law enforcement | Some US financial institutions involved with international wire transfers into foreign bank accounts, proving touchpoints to U.S. legal code(s) (attribute) | |
Seizure Crime Scene | Narcotics, money laundering | Attempt to conduct financial transaction involving property to conceal proceeds from wildlife and narcotics (attribute, point, polygon) |
