{"id":479984,"date":"2026-06-16T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:12:09","slug":"mans-luggage-in-south-africa-held-150-live-venomous-scorpions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479984\/","title":{"rendered":"Man&#8217;s luggage in South Africa held 150 live venomous scorpions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested following the discovery of 150 live venomous scorpions at an airport in South Africa last week. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was accused of stashing the arachnids between clothing in his luggage at Cape Town International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was arrested under the Nature and Environmental Ordinance Act, being in possession of a wild animal,&#8221; South Africa Police said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The estimated value of the scorpions, each individually wrapped in plastic, had yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>His arrest was made in a joint operation between Kuilsriver Stock Theft and Endangered Species Unit and Cape Nature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scorpions were transported to a haven for safe keeping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man was due to appear in the Bellville Magistrates\u2019 Court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested following the discovery of 150 live venomous scorpions at an airport in South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[190,50,67,111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-479984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-africa","tag-animals","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}