NY man sentenced for smuggling snakes across border in his pants

ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) – A New York man who hid snakes in his pants to smuggle them across the U.S.-Canada border was sentenced on Wednesday. Authorities say Calvin Bautista, 38, of Richmond Hill, admitted he had three Burmese pythons in his pants when he rode a bus across the border at the Champlain Port of Entry in 2018.

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