A man who federal prosecutors said stashed three Burmese pythons inside his pants and rode a bus from Montréal, Canada, to the U.S. has avoided a prison sentence. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers learned the reptiles were in the man’s pants “near his inner thigh” on July 15, 2018, after the bus crossed the U.S.-Canada border at the Champlain Port of Entry in upstate New York, according to prosecutors. The officers examined the man closely when they “misidentified” him as an “armed and dangerous” suspect, according to a sentencing memo filed by Timothy E. Austin, a federal public def…