{"id":255446,"date":"2026-05-02T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255446\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:23:07","slug":"broken-tag-light-leads-florida-troopers-to-13-bound-iguanas-in-georgia-mans-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255446\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken tag light leads Florida troopers to 13 bound iguanas in Georgia man&#8217;s truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINTER PARK, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A dim tag light led Florida troopers to a disturbing haul of iced fish and 13 live iguanas bound with zip-ties in the back of a Georgia man&#8217;s truck.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, troopers with the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/search?find=Florida+Highway+Patrol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Highway Patrol<\/a> say they stopped Rendon Casildo-Acdiel for a broken trailer light in Winter Park, only to find he was driving with a suspended license. <\/p>\n<p>The situation escalated when a K-9 alerted to the vehicle, leading to a search of the truck bed, according to FHP.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/crime\/boynton-beach-florida-couple-arrested-teens-e-bikes-say-pellet-gun-was-pointed-at-them-aggravated-assault-husband-wife-vista-del-rio-byrna-juveniles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boynton Beach couple arrested after teens on e-bikes say pellet gun was pointed at them<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inside, officials found coolers of iced tilapia and 13 live iguanas\u2014many with their legs zip-tied behind their backs. <\/p>\n<p>The reptiles were rushed to a local rescue shelter while the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/search?find=FWC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission<\/a> took over the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say Casildo-Acdiel now faces charges for the license violation and potential wildlife crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINTER PARK, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A dim tag light led Florida troopers to a disturbing haul of iced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-255446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}