Customs inspectors at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport foiled an attempt to smuggle nearly 200 exotic animals, Israeli authorities announced on Thursday.

The suspect, a 24-year-old Israeli man from Bnei Brak, was caught with 186 animals in his suitcase, including snakes, turtles, crabs, frogs, lizards, and other amphibians worth an estimated tens of thousands of dollars, the Tax Authority, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Nature and Parks Authority said.

The suspect had arrived at Ben Gurion on a flight from Thailand.