A New York City man has been sentenced to a year of probation and fined $5,000 for attempting to smuggle three Burmese pythons in his pants across the U.S.-Canadian border. Calvin Bautista, 38, was caught with the hidden snakes during a routine search by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on July 15, 2018.
According to court documents and a release from the office of U.S. Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Bautista had boarded a bus from Montreal to New York City with the concealed pythons. The young adult snakes were tucked away in snake bags tied to the inner thigh of his pants using the pants' drawstring.
