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Jose Manuel Perez, an Oxnard man who has called himself the Pablo Escobar of wildlife crimes, admitted last year in Los Angeles federal court that he smuggled 1,700 animals — including baby crocodiles and four-eyed turtles — from Mexico into the United States, prosecutors say.

Walter was bullied at school; his classmates called him Sissy Boy until he got glasses, whereupon he was known as Four-eyed Sissy Boy.

“That four-eyed maverick has sand in his craw a-plenty,” a ranch hand said approvingly.

Four-eyed fish: A single eye in this species—pictured here—holds two lobes.

One sits above the waterline, and one sits below it, lending the “four-eyed” moniker to a fish that cruises the water’s surface for floating snacks.