{"id":77006,"date":"2026-08-05T08:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/two-us-men-charged-for-allegedly-using-snakes-a-lemur-and-a-monkey-for-exotic-photoshoots\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:54:53","slug":"two-us-men-charged-for-allegedly-using-snakes-a-lemur-and-a-monkey-for-exotic-photoshoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/two-us-men-charged-for-allegedly-using-snakes-a-lemur-and-a-monkey-for-exotic-photoshoots\/","title":{"rendered":"Two US men charged for allegedly using snakes, a lemur and a monkey for exotic photoshoots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men allegedly used exotic animals for photoshoots featuring a ring of fire in a parking garage in Maryland <\/p>\n<p>Two Baltimore, Maryland, men are facing charges for allegedly using exotic animals \u2013 including snakes, a lemur and a spider monkey \u2013 in photoshoots featuring three semi-clothed models and a ring of fire in a garage beneath a luxury shopping complex.<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Vernon Crowfey III, the 32-year-old owner of the company Photogeniks, was arrested in Towson, Maryland, on 16 July after an undercover officer arranged a shoot with the animals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/05\/maryland-men-charged-exotic-animal-photoshoots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men allegedly used exotic animals for photoshoots featuring a ring of fire in a parking garage in Maryland Two Baltimore, Maryland, men are facing charges for allegedly using exotic animals \u2013 including snakes, a lemur and a spider monkey \u2013 in photoshoots featuring three semi-clothed models and a ring of fire in a garage beneath &#8230; <a title=\"Two US men charged for allegedly using snakes, a lemur and a monkey for exotic photoshoots\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/two-us-men-charged-for-allegedly-using-snakes-a-lemur-and-a-monkey-for-exotic-photoshoots\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Two US men charged for allegedly using snakes, a lemur and a monkey for exotic photoshoots\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}