# Police on a Japanese holiday island have arrested three Chinese nationals after thousands of live hermit crabs were found stuffed into multiple suitcases. Police said a hotel worker on the island of Amami Oshima, alerted environmental authorities after hearing rustling sounds coming from the suitcases the three men had asked hotel staff to watch. Officers later found the spiral-shelled hermit crabs stuffed into six suitcases. Police told CNN the hermit crabs are national natural monuments in Japan because of their cultural and scientific value, and protected under Japanese law.
Chinese nationals arrested in Japan after thousands of protected hermit crabs found in suitcases