Turtle poacher sentenced

An Agat man arrested on Saturday for allegedly trying to sell an endangered green sea turtle has been sentenced to five months in prison for committing the exact same crime in 2008.

Convicted turtle poacher Roque Chargualaf Inocentes was re-sentenced on Tuesday, according to District Court of Guam records.

In May of 2008, Inocentes and three others were caught hunting turtles with spear guns, files state. Conservation officers caught them with a turtle that had been killed with a spear through the breastplate, files state.

Inocentes pleaded guilty to four months later and was sentenced to three years of probation, court documents state.

He was re-arrested on Saturday after one of the same conservation officers caught him allegedly attempting to sell a 25-pound turtle for $125. The turtle died because it was pieced through the neck, court documents state.

As a result, Inocentes was charged with "taking a threatened species" -- the same crime he pleaded guilty to in 2008.

Even with his recent arrest, Inocentes could have had his probation revoked. District Court files show a federal judge was considering sending Inocentes to prison for other reasons -- like testing positive for drug use and skipping drug tests -- before he was caught with the second turtle.