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- Police seized 309 pythons from Guo's apartment and sentenced Guo and two associates to prison in Taizhou.
- The raid followed a March 2024 report by a senior citizen of a large tawny python near a mountain, where investigators found snakes stacked in plastic containers filling two bedrooms and the living room.
- Authorities moved the reptiles to a zoo and said the operation held 436 pythons worth 30 million yuan (about $4.2 million).
