WFTV (Orlando, Florida) 11 December 09 13 Venomous Snakes Found During Man's Arrest

Deltona, Fla.: Volusia County deputies found more than they bargained for while arresting a wanted Deltona man. Inside his house, they found 13 venomous snakes and he had no permit for them.

“Why did you have so many poisonous snakes?” WFTV reporter Emily Turner asked David Sneddon.

“I didn't have sh**. You understand?” Sneddon said.

Despite his denials, Florida Fish and Wildlife says Sneddon is the illegal owner of more than a dozen poisonous snakes, most of them rattlers. He was charged with a similar crime two years ago in Orange County and Eyewitness News found he has a violent criminal history, including three battery charges.

“You stay the f*** off my property or we're going to have some problems,” he told Turner.

Volusia County sheriff's deputies stumbled on the snakes when they arrested him for a probation violation on an injunction for repeat violence. Now he faces pending charges for keeping 13 snakes without a permit.

“As long as they stay in that house down there, he can do with them whatever he wants. That's his business,” a neighbor said.

Fish and Wildlife confiscated the reptiles. Officials have no idea why he had them. One neighbor told Eyewitness News he sold the venom, but Sneddon denied it.
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