Police in Jasper County plan to arrest a suspect after rescuing 52 “improperly housed snakes” that were part of an abandoned breeding operation.
The nonvenomous snakes of various species were found at the suspect’s workplace on Sisters Ferry Road near downtown Ridgeland. After ditching the breeding operation, the suspect left the snakes “confined in boxes with no means of escape,” according to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office.
The department said it plans to charge the suspect with animal abandonment. Their name was not immediately released and a complete list of charges would come at a “later time,” according to spokesperson Christian Felt…