Normally, border agents find people trying to smuggle drugs across the Texas – Mexico border. This was not the case.
In fact, we can probably imagine there were a few agents who would have rather come across a truck packed full of cocaine.
Instead, agents seized a truck attempting to smuggle 163 reptiles, spiders, and centipedes into Mexico, which included 24 royal pythons, 11 spotted salamanders, four tarantulas, and three bearded dragons, amongst other creatures.
According to KENS 5, the truck was seized, the driver was arrested, and all the animals were handed off to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The full list of animals seized includes:
-24 royal pythons
-15 green anoles
-11 spotted salamanders
-10 sick red eye tree frogs
-10 albino milk snakes
-10 orange milk snakes
-10 Mexican black king snakes
-4 monarch ball pythons
-4 tarantulas
-3 pacman frogs (yellow)
-3 coffee pacman frogs
-3 Chilean rose tarantulas
-3 irian jaya blue tongued skinks
-3 bearded dragons
-3 savannah monitors
-3 rankin dragons
-3 albino aberrant California king snakes
-3 albino banded California king snakes
-3 albino striped California king snakes
-3 albino/amelanistic corn snakes
-3 black corn snakes
-2 ball pythons
-2 Honduran milk snakes
-2 ornate monitor lizards
-2 Chinese caved geckos
-2 veiled chameleons
-2 centipedes
-2 green tree pythons
-2 high white California king snakes
-1 timor python
-1 carpet python
-1 garter snake
-1 banana blade clown
-1 banana spotnose
-1 pinstripe ball python
-1 fire skink
-1 Indian star tortoise
-1 ghost Aztec jungle boa
-1 female juvenile axanthic banana ball python
-1 female juvenile axanthic banana lesser ball python
-1 juvenile axanthic lesser ball python
-1 juveline axanthic ball python
-1 juvenile ghost piebald ball python
-1 juvenile piebald ball python
-1 male juvenile axanthic banana enchi ball python
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