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Least Competent Criminal

News of the Weird

By News of the Weird

Published June 10, 2022

Least Competent Criminal

U.S. border agents at the San Ysidro crossing in California stopped a 30-year-old man driving a truck on Feb. 25 as he attempted to cross from Mexico, the Associated Press reported on March 8.

Agents found 52 live reptiles tied up in small bags -- not so weird, except they were "concealed in the man's jacket, pants pockets, and groin area," CBP said in a statement.

Nine snakes and 43 horned lizards were seized. Some species were endangered. The driver was a U.S. citizen. [AP, 3/8/2022]