Brian Medus admitted that James Mohamad paid him $300 per fraudulent permit so Medus would allow him to keep doing HVAC jobs in the city without the proper license.
Sidney Aki of Customs and Border Protection in San Diego said "smugglers will try every possible way" after a 30-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested on charges of trying to get past agents with nine snakes and 43 horned lizards hidden in his jacket, pants pockets and groin area.