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Workers Find Box Of Illegal Reptiles, Insects

POSTED: 3:15 pm HST November 3, 2006
UPDATED: 3:44 pm HST November 3, 2006

State agricultural workers found a cache of illegal animals anonymously delivered to its Hilo office on Thursday.

The workers found a box with several animals inside. The box contained a 22-inch albino corn snake, a bearded dragon lizard, a 19-inch iguana and two emperor scorpions.

All of these animals are illegal to transport and possess in Hawaii.

Anyone caught with illegal animals can face up to $200,000 in fines and three years in prison.

Anyone who voluntarily turns in illegal animals is granted immunity.
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