Man stopped at customs with 100 live snakes down his pants

Fred He, Alex Stambaugh and Jack Guy, CNN

HONG KONG (CNN) — A man was caught trying to smuggle much than 100 live snakes into mainland China by stuffing them into his pants, according to nan country’s customs authority.

Customs officers successful nan confederate Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen intercepted nan man walking done Futian Port, a checkpoint betwixt Hong Kong and mainland China, nan agency said successful a connection connected Tuesday.

During an inspection, officers recovered six canvas drawstring bags sealed pinch portion successful nan pockets of his pants.

“Officers opened nan bags and recovered that each container contained a number of unrecorded snakes successful various shapes and colors,” nan connection said.

“After counting, a full of 104 snakes were found.”

Five type of snakes were later identified – nan beverage snake, occidental hognose snake, maize snake, Texas rat snake and bullsnake – 4 of which are non-native to China. None of nan type is venomous. The connection said nan incident occurred “a fewer days ago,” but did not specify when.

The customs agency did not opportunity if nan man was arrested, but it warned that “if nan regulations are violated, nan customs will prosecute ineligible liability successful accordance pinch nan law.”

In June, different man was arrested attempting to smuggle 454 endangered turtles from Macau to mainland China.