A man was sentenced after he tried to smuggle three Burmese pythons in his pants while crossing the border from Canada to the United States, according to officials.
Calvin Bautista, a 38-year-old man from Richmond Hill, New York, was sentenced this week to one year of probation and fined $5,000 after he attempted to smuggle the pythons into the country through the Champlain Port of Entry in New York on July 15, 2018, while riding a Greyhound bus, states the United States Attorney’s office, Northern District of New York in a press release.
He pleaded guilty in court in June 2023, eight months before he was sentenced. The maximum term for the crime he committed is “20 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and a term of supervised release of up to 3 years,” states the attorney’s office.
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