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Baby alligator, snakes found in university dorm

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-10 13:28

FAYETTEVILLE: A baby alligator, a diamondback rattlesnake, six pythons and three chameleons have been found in a University of Arkansas dorm room. Campus police Lt. Gary Crain said Monday the reptiles?- and four white mice that were apparently intended as lunch?- were found in Maple Hill West.

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UA student Jacob Miller of Marion told police that he and roommate Michael Robbins of West Memphis were getting the reptiles free online and selling them for a profit. Crain says the two were not arrested but were fined by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission because it's illegal to possess alligators or rattlesnakes without certification as a handler.

Crain says police went to the room after dorm's resident director received an anonymous phone call reporting marijuana and reptiles inside.

He says no drugs were found.

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