Photos: Hundreds of snakes found in teacher’s SoCal home
January 31, 2014
While interviewing Santa Ana Police Animal Services supervisor Sondra Berg, television reporters Bobby DeCastro, from FOX11 and Wendy Burch of KTLA 5 plug their noses to avoid the stench emanating from a house filled with dead and decaying snakes in Santa Ana, Calif. Berg holds an albino ball python that was one of the surviving snakes in the home. (Associated Press) ( Snake Stench )
A television cameraman records snakes brought out of a house in Santa Ana on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2014. A California schoolteacher was arrested Wednesday after hundreds of living and dead pythons in plastic bins were found stacked ceiling to floor inside his stench-filled home. (AP Photo) ( Snake Stench )
A pythonis is prepared for transport on Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014, in Santa Ana, Calif., at the home of William Buchman. Buchman has been arrested for investigation of neglect in the care of animals, after authorities found at least 300 living and dead pythons in plastic bins inside Buchman's stench-filled suburban home. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( Snake Stench )
Trash is shown stacked against the home of William Buchman on Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014 in Santa Ana, Calif. Buchman has been arrested for investigation of neglect in the care of animals, after authorities found at least 300 living and dead pythons in plastic bins inside Buchman's stench-filled suburban home. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( Snake Stench )
Dead snakes are shown at the home of William Buchman, Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014 in Santa Ana, Calif. Buchman has been arrested for investigation of neglect in the care of animals, after authorities found at least 300 living and dead pythons in plastic bins inside Buchman's stench-filled suburban home. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( Snake Stench )
This image provided by the Santa Ana Police Department shows William Buchman, who has been arrested for investigation of neglect in the care of animals, after authorities found at least 300 living and dead pythons in plastic bins inside Buchman's stench-filled suburban home. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( Snake Stench )
Tommy Munoz, with Herpetology Association Rescue prepares a python for transport Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014 in Santa Ana, Calif., at the home of William Buchman, who has been arrested for investigation of neglect in the care of animals, after authorities found at least 300 living and dead pythons in plastic bins inside Buchman's stench-filled suburban home. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( Snake Stench )
Santa Ana Police Officer Sondra Berg holds a python Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014, in Santa Ana, Calif., after serving a warrant on the home of William Buchman, who has been arrested for investigation of neglect in the care of animals, after authorities found at least 300 living and dead pythons in plastic bins inside Buchman's stench-filled suburban home. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ( Snake Stench )
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