ALBANY, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – A Queens, New York man has been charged with smuggling three Burmese Pythons into the US from Canada on the Champlain Port of Entry.
Calvin Bautista, 36 of Richmond Hill, allegedly hid the snakes in his pants as he rode a bus that crossed the border.
The cost filed in opposition to Bautista carries a most sentence of 20 years in jail, a effective of as much as $250,000, and a time period of supervised launch of as much as 3 years. The sentence can be imposed by a choose based mostly on a number of elements.
Bautista was arraigned in Albany and launched pending a trial earlier than Senior United States District Decide Lawrence E. Kahn.
