Lethbridge Park man faces 169 animal abuse charges in trafficking bust
A Lethbridge Park man will face court on 169 animal abuse charges over an alleged animal trafficking operation.
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A Lethbridge Park man will face court on 169 animal abuse charges over an alleged animal trafficking operation.
Police charged the 25-year-old man yesterday over his alleged role in the illegal exportation of Australian animals, seizing 19 animals.
Police allege the man captured native Australian animals before they were sent overseas for more than $38,000.
Officers from the Public Order and Riot Squad and the NSW Office of the Environment and Heritage raided a home in Marquesa Crescent in Lethbridge Park yesterday and found 12 shingleback lizards, one Stimson’s python, three young monitors, a South American mata mata turtle and two deceased crocodiles.
It will also be alleged that a further 147 reptiles — including a death adder, 58 gecko lizards, blue-tongue lizards and 21 bearded dragon lizards — were seized in 2017.
Phone phones and other electronic devices were also seized.
The man faces 165 counts of dealing or attempting to deal in a protected animal, two counts of attempted export of a regulated native specimen with a permit, possessing a non-native/regulated specimen and commit act of cruelty upon an animal.
He was granted bail and will face Mt Druitt Local Court on June 5.
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