According to the reports, Richard Parrinello, 44, kept 850 snakes in his home garage, including three small frozen alligator carcasses which were to be fed to the reptiles, two Burmese pythons (6-foot-long). All these were forbidden by the law in the state.
The Deputy town attorney David J. Moran and other Officials raided Richard Parrinello's home after a monthlong workers' compensation probe. officials said that they raided his home stemming from allegations that he had a second job while on disability leave.
For seven years, Parrinello has been a full-time town employee, but he now faces multiple counts of violating town laws by running a reptile sales business at his home without a permit. He cooperated with the authorities and was not arrested, the officials said, Parrinello faces possible termination from his town job.
He has also been managing a website called Snake Man Exotics, Which since has been suspended.
Gross told the press that he has never seen so many snakes in one place before, not even in a zoo. He added that they were called in to see whether there was an animal cruelty or neglect [but] the animals appeared to be healthy and well-cared for.
Gross noted that the two Burmese pythons (6-foot-long) were being handled separately from the other reptiles, because they are dangerous. "Two escaped pythons in Canada recently strangled to death a pair of young children." He concluded.
Parrinello who owns two vans with personalized number plates reading “SNAKEVAN” and “SSSSNAKE,” is cooperating with the authorities from the state's Department of Environmental Conservation and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Long Island has made recent efforts of convincing people to hand over reptiles owned illegally.
Neighbors were shocked and they never even thought of him doing stuff like that because he seemed like a nice, quiet guy.
0 comments:
Post a Comment