{"id":759108,"date":"2026-06-25T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759108\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:56:09","slug":"crocodile-discovered-on-balcony-triggers-arrest-after-100-more-reptiles-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759108\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile discovered on balcony triggers arrest after 100 more reptiles found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong police have arrested a woman after the discovery of a 1.5-metre-long (4.9 feet) crocodile on her balcony led to authorities finding about 100 more reptiles in her home, the South China Morning Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A source said police officers and staff from the Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) returned to the flat at midnight on Wednesday after finding the crocodile hours earlier, only to discover more reptiles.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOfficers discovered a large number of animals inside the flat, including many regulated endangered species,\u201d the insider said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A force spokesman said the animals included turtles, lizards and snakes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 35-year-old woman occupying the flat was subsequently arrested.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The case has been passed to the department, and the animals have been taken away for inspection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police have arrested a woman after the discovery of a 1.5-metre-long (4.9 feet) crocodile on her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[156725,64,63,11630,20558,176037,10340,44,15849,128,15216,362814,362817,362813,362815,362816,338],"class_list":["post-759108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-agricultural","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crocodile","tag-endangered-species","tag-fisheries-and-conservation-department","tag-hong-kong","tag-news","tag-reptiles","tag-science","tag-scmp","tag-sham-shui-po","tag-society-for-the-prevention-of-cruelty-to-animals","tag-spca","tag-tai-po-road","tag-tsing-yi","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}