An American man faces years in prison for smuggling three large snakes that were in his pants.
He tried to bring the reptiles across the American-Canadian border. According to the US news agency AP involved three Burmese pythons.
Calvin Bautista, 36, of New York City, was traveling from Canada to the United States by bus. A check was carried out at the border. To take the pythons across the border, you need a permit and the man didn’t have one. He was later arrested.
It is not known what the condition of the snakes was. Furthermore, the length of the animals is not indicated. Burmese pythons can grow up to nearly 5 meters in length.
The crime had already occurred in 2018, but his trial only started this week. The New Yorker faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $ 250,000 fine.
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