A team from the city’s Criminal Nuisance Abatement Unit has red-tagged the apartment where officials have found 72 live snakes, at last count.
Animal welfare officials said they spent Monday afternoon at the Las Kivas Apartments on Tramway Boulevard, where they seized several reptiles and numerous snakes — most of them boa constrictors.
“It was piled high, full of trash, feces,” said unit member Vivian Gonzales.
“There were also deceased snakes that were merely thrown into a tub,” said Lt. Jay Gilhooly of the Criminal Nuisance Abatement Unit. “A number of dead rats, mice, that we would assume would normally be used to feed the snakes.”
Three children, ages 8, 6 and 2, also lived in the home. The children were sent to live with their grandparents.
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