Man Stuffs Six Live Lobsters Down His Pants To Avoid Arrest

When wardens arrested Chau for the second time, they noticed “odd bulges” in Chau's pants.

Chau had wrapped six lobsters individually in newspaper and stuffed them down his drawers.

“That was kind of a different one there,” said DFG warden Daryl Simmons who had cited Chau the first time while on patrol with warden Gerald Borjeson and Nancy Foley, chief of the DFG's wardens. Simmons was in on all three of the DFG's arrests of Chau. A San Diego Police officer made a fourth arrest.

Fortunately, all six lobsters that Chau stuffed down his pants were still alive and were returned to the ocean, Simmons said.

“We try to do that with all the lobsters we confiscate,” Simmons said. “Those undersized lobsters have a chance to get bigger.”