George DeMet

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Founder and Co-CEO of Palantir.net. Open source community guy. He/him.

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Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton at Pittsburgh International Airport
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Mark Williams, chief of the environmental crimes unit of the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, said reptiles are often shipped in boxes without food or air by people whose hobby turns out to have an evil downside. “I think it starts out in a good place,” he said. “It starts out with liking lizards, and it turns into trafficking, and then by the hundreds or thousands.”
Repticon, a roving reptile trade show that draws thousands of customers most weekends in cities around the country, attracts hundreds of homespun vendors who do business under such names as Gecko Junkie, Slithermania and Snakes for the Memories. It’s a tight-knit community.
Jose Manuel Perez, an Oxnard man who has called himself the Pablo Escobar of wildlife crimes, admitted last year in Los Angeles federal court that he smuggled 1,700 animals — including baby crocodiles and four-eyed turtles — from Mexico into the United States, prosecutors say. When Perez drove across the border late one night, customs officers found 60 alligator lizards and dwarf boas hidden in the clothing he was wearing; three of the reptiles were dead.