Customs NAIA finds live python hidden in basket

A live reticulated python was intercepted at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Complex, the Bureau of Customs reported Sunday.

According to the bureau, the snake was hidden in a rattan basket in a courier service's warehouse in the NAIA Complex and misdeclared as "wood curtains, lanterns, rattan basket."

It was shipped by a Janrei Fernandez of Sampaloc, Manila and was supposed to be bound for New York. 

The Customs Examiner found the python during a physical examination and turned it over to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

Photo: Bureau of Customs

The BOC also said that the US Fish and Wildlife Service commended the bureau for seizing the animal. — BM, GMA News