British Citizen to Pay Close to $1 Million for 900 Tarantulas Found in His Luggage in Brazil
November 16, 2009 -- Lee Ardern, 26, a British citizen was taken into custody by the Brazilian police in the Rio de Janeiro international airport, Wednesday night, after customs randomly checked his luggage and found out that he was carrying about 900 live bird-eating spiders of four different species, which he was trying to smuggle out of Brazil. Read the full story to get the details.