A man trying to get through airport security in Pennsylvania was discovered to be smuggling a small turtle in his pants.

Sea turtles already crowd the foyer when I arrive at the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s nature center in Wellfleet. People hustle to put each animal on a clean towel in a cardboard box that ...

An officer conducting a pat-down on the man man figured out he was hiding somethin in the groin area of his pants.

When asked if there was something hidden inside his pants, officials said that the East Stroudsburg man reached under his waistband and pulled out a live turtle wrapped in a small blue towel.

When asked if there was something hidden in his pants, the man, a resident of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, reached in and pulled out a live turtle wrapped in a small blue towel. He told officials ...

reached down the front of his pants and pulled out a live turtle that was wrapped in a small blue towel ... U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local animal control officials.

After a pat down, the man reached into the front of his pants and pulled out a live turtle, which was wrapped in a blue towel ... who was concealing a live animal down the front of his pants ...

When questioned further, the man reached into his pants and pulled out the turtle, which was about 5 inches (12 centimeters) long and wrapped in a small blue towel ... a live animal down the ...

The TSA officer questioned the traveler, and that’s when the man “reached down the front of his pants and pulled out a live turtle that was wrapped in a small blue towel,” officials said.