FALL RIVER -- It's not unusual for customers at a pet store to debate the right way to care for a lizard or snake. But Fall River police said an argument at Jurassic Jungle on the topic of "proper reptile care" escalated to a brawl that resulted in two arrests and three people being hospitalized.

The Herald News reported that brothers James Dugan-Weeks, 27, and Allen Weeks, 30, pleaded not guilty in Fall River District Court Monday to charges of kidnapping, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, and in Dugan-Weeks' case, strangulation.

The Herald News reported that one alleged victim told police that Weeks and Dugan-Weeks, who was a volunteer at Jurassic Jungle, had been drinking, smoking pot and disturbing customers at the store early Saturday morning.

The man told police that he began arguing with Dugan-Weeks over reptile care. Dugan-Weeks choked him against a wall and Weeks got involved, the Herald News reported.

After two people entered the store and tried to intervene, the newspaper reported, the brothers locked the door so no one could leave and assaulted all three people, including punching and kicking them. Eventually, the door was unlocked and the altercation continued outside the store, police wrote in court documents.

The brothers allegedly fled and were arrested later Saturday. Rene Brown, an attorney for Weeks, wrote in court documents that her client had a different version of events supported by surveillance footage.

She said he had been hit in the head with a brick, and had to be treated at an emergency room, the Herald News reported.

Hearings on whether the two men are too dangerous to be released will be held Thursday, according to the newspaper.