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A Florida reptile store owner made notorious after a man died during a 2012 insect-eating contest at the business is behind bars after he smacked employees with a bearded dragon lizard and even put it in his mouth during a bizarre attack, police said.

The charges include battery (by lizard) and animal cruelty (battery of lizard). At press time the fate of the lizard was not yet known.

Credit for this item goes to the excellent Twitterer @_FloridaMan, who tweeted this with the headline “Florida Man Who Organized Deadly Roach-Eating Contest Arrested for Slapping Employee With Lizard.” Mine is shorter but probably not better.