21 April 2011

Reptile trafficking

Acting on a tip-off, police intercepted the bus in a northern province bound for Buenos Aires... "A passenger came onboard with 40 snakes, plus what he had in the boxes" in the bus luggage hold, said ranger Daniel Chersich, warden of Santa Fe province... The trafficker had loaded them with 444 boas, vipers and other snakes; 186 endangered tortoises; 40 lizards, and an armadillo. The smuggler, who was arrested, boarded the bus in Santiago del Estero, where he had spent three months trapping various species in the bush with the intent of selling them.
Source, via Nothing To Do With Arbroath.

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