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Golf architect found guilty of smuggling illegal wildlife items, faces up to five years in prison

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7 years ago

Dec 20, 2018

Golf architect, Keith Foster, admitted on Wednesday that his now-closed business, The Outpost, had been illegally smuggling items made from exotic and endangered animals.

Foster’s shop, located in Middleburg, Va, had been selling the likes of crocodile skin wallets, giant sea turtle shells, blades made of sawfish, mounted brown owls and ostrich feather dusters. The 66-year-old confessed to the infringements, and as well as his shop having been closed down, he also agreed to forfeit $275,000 as well as 175 wildlife products.

Foster, whose famous course designs include The Quarry in San Antonio, Dark Horse GC in Auburn, Shepherd’s Crook in Zion and Coral Canyon in St. George, made no secret of the illegal items that he was selling, openly promoting them on both the shop’s website and Instagram account.

According to court records, Foster told the agent of his sawfish blades “In truth, I shouldn’t be bringing those in..I’m the only fool in the States that probably wants to risk it,” per a Washington Post report.

Foster also disclosed to the agent that his method of deviance involved hiding the illegal products in falsely labeled shipping containers when sending them back from abroad.

An employee of The Outpost, Lauren Rhodes, told the undercover agent according to a search warrant that the shop “only ever had one thing caught, which I think is pretty good.” But ultimately the shop was raided by the authorities and closed several months ago.

The golf architect pleaded guilty to violating the Lacey Act, a 1900 federal law that prohibits trafficking in illegal wildlife. He is set to be sentenced on March 8, 2019, and faces a maximum of five years behind bars.

(h/t Ethan Zimman on Twitter)

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Speedy

Dec 24, 2018 at 1:07 pm

Golf chum.

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Cruella Daville

Dec 24, 2018 at 9:40 am

Whatever, we’re not talking about White Rhino horns here. Dude got screwed, but he knew he was playing with fire.

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Mario

Dec 24, 2018 at 1:13 am

I heard that the straw that broke the camels back was the Dalmatian Puppy coats that he was smuggling.

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joro

Dec 21, 2018 at 1:48 pm

Never heard of da bum

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Jamie

Dec 21, 2018 at 10:56 am

Death penalty? Start with yourselves for suggesting such. 5 years and never working in golf architecture again will suffice.

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Rich Douglas

Dec 20, 2018 at 9:54 pm

Jerk.

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Dave

Dec 20, 2018 at 8:24 pm

I’ve played Dark Horse a couple times. It demonstrated to me that this guy is a mean person. Just kidding.

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FiftyOneFifty

Dec 20, 2018 at 7:53 pm

I’ll take 2 sawfish jawbones, a sea turtle shell, couple elephant tusks, a rhino horn, and top it off with some lion mane fur. Cause ya know, I need that stuff, for my collections..

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Jose Pinatas

Dec 20, 2018 at 7:48 pm

WTF…..

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A. Ward

Dec 20, 2018 at 7:02 pm

Humanity will be judged by how we treat animals. This is shameful and he deserves jail time. We will never shop there again.

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- Mower
  
  Dec 20, 2018 at 8:59 pm
  
  Can’t believe this d-bag! If he has any tiger fur, he needs to be put down… like six feet down.
  
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Terry, this is not a Game

Dec 20, 2018 at 5:38 pm

5 years? Too bad it’s not the death penalty. Scumbag

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- David Lehmann
  
  Dec 21, 2018 at 12:05 pm
  
  DeathPenalty. Don’t even get that for Killing unborn Humans!!
  
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