Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe EL CAJON, Calif., July 3 (UPI) -- Police officers searching the home of a Southern California plumber found a cache of assault-style weapons, a number of venomous snakes and an alligator. Christopher Shawn Hendry Jr. faces charges for both the guns and the snakes, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Advertisement Deputy District Attorney Jessica Schuster said the menagerie in Hendry's garage included two cobras, two rattlesnakes and more than 20 vipers. He is believed to have bought the snakes through the Internet and the alligator from a private seller. "It's hard to imagine why a person would want to have reptiles of this nature," Schuster said after a hearing Monday. "They're not pets. They're dangerous snakes." The reptiles are now in the San Diego Zoo. The original charge against Hendry of threatening a man he had found with his girlfriend has been dropped because the alleged victim does not wish to make a complaint, Schuster said.
