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The reptiles were returned to the owner, the city government returned them at the request of the owners attorney. The city saw no reason to hold them, as the reptiles were inventoried as evidence for the Court hearing already, and were moved to a (supposedly) permitted location outside the city limits. About a dozen of the reptiles died while confiscated and in the care of a city appointed pet store. The owner has pending charges for lack appropriate permits. The procedure in PA seems to work rationally. If this happened in Florida, the FWC would have pushed outrageous, exaggerated and false stories to the media, promoting themselves as the saviors of the human race and animals, and then, after leaving the reptiles in a locked parked car in the sun for a few hours, would shoot and beheaded all the reptiles(legal or not) in the name of protecting reptiles, before any Court hearing was possible.