850 Snakes Found
September 21, 2013 by staff
850 Snakes Found, An animal-control officer in New York has been found with 850 snakes in his home.
The man ran an illegal side business selling the snakes, with authorities reporting that the animals were worth half a million dollars.
The illegal haul included two illegal two-metre-long Burmese pythons.
“There is a reason why Burmese pythons are illegal,” said Suffolk County SPCA Chief Roy Gross, citing the deaths of two young boys in New Brunswick, Canada, who were killed by an African rock python while they slept last month.
Gross said Burmese pythons can grow to nine metres long and are “an accident waiting to happen.”
Richard Parrinello had worked on and off as an animal-control officer for the town of Brookhaven since 1988.
Authorities spotted the snakes during an investigation into whether Parrinello was working while on disability leave from his town job.
During a weeks-long undercover investigation, authorities said, investigators caught Parrinello on camera claiming he had $500,000 in inventory – including snakes, turtles and turtle eggs – stored in a garage he’d converted into habitat space
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