Man arrested for keeping snakes, tortoises at home

Snake handlers from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) display one of the two pythons at the Diani Police Station which were recovered from a residential house in Msambweni, May 17, 2015. The officers also recovered twenty-two tortoises and eight different kinds of snakes. The owner was arrested and he will be taken to court today (Monday) to be charged with keeping wildlife reptiles in his residential house without a permit from the KWS. (PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD)

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officers at Msambweni in Kwale have impounded several snakes and tortoises which were being reared illegally by a man.

The officers also arrested a 50-year-old resident of Mwamanga village for rearing the reptiles without a permit.