The courier service SEUR said the stolen goods were things of “special value” worth no more than $67,000.
Bite blows lid off snake collection
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man is losing his exotic reptile collection worth $49,000 after police found dozens of venomous lizards and snakes in his home.
Fifty-one-year-old Walter Kidd of Hendersonville pleaded guilty Friday to 30 misdemeanor charges of possessing endangered animals and failing to properly label containers of poisonous snakes.
Police seized the reptiles in August after Kidd was bitten by an exotic venomous snake and rushed to a hospital. Officers said his mobile home was packed with snakes in plastic containers.
The creatures were taken to the state natural sciences museum in Raleigh.
Thieves forget to take along their loot
MADRID (AP) — There’s nothing like a flat tire to ruin a carefully planned heist.
Spanish police say hooded thieves crashed a van into a courier service warehouse vault and made off with sacks of valuables on Thursday. They then fled in a waiting Audi, but crashed into another car as they merged onto a Madrid highway.
That caused the flat.
The four thieves carjacked another vehicle at gunpoint. No one was hurt and the thieves got away — but left most of their booty in the back seat of the damaged Audi.
The courier service SEUR said the stolen goods were things of “special value” worth no more than $67,000.