An animal control officer on disability
kept 850 snakes, including two 6-foot Burmese pythons, while running an illegal
snake business out of his suburban New York home, according to authorities who
made the discovery yesterday.
Richard Parrinello, of Brookhaven, New
York, kept the snakes in his detached garage, all neatly stacked in containers
and at the right temperature, Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk County SPCA said.
Jack Krieger, communications director
for the Town of Brookhaven on Long Island said that Burmese pythons are illegal
in New York, and Parrinello's were taken from the house to a reptile sanctuary
in Massachusetts while the rest of the snakes are still in his garage.
Gross said all the snakes appeared to
be in good health and there was no animal abuse or neglect.
"It was a well-maintained
facility, it was very clean and organised, it was a business," Krieger
said.
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