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Eighteen months after two New Brunswick brothers were strangled to death by an African rock python, the snake’s owner has been taken into custody.

“Overwhelming day,” wrote Mandy Trecartin, the mother of victims Noah and Connor Barthe, writing in a Thursday Twitter post. “Guess there’s a reason I’ve had disturbing recurring dreams of my boys for the past few nights.”

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On Thursday, the lawyer for Jean-Claude Savoie confirmed that his client had been arrested in Montreal, where he has moved since the Barthe brothers were killed in Mr. Savoie’s Campbellton, NB home in August, 2013.

“The RCMP originally announced to me that there would be no criminal charges arising from this investigation,” said Campbellton-based lawyer Leslie F. Matchim.

That all changed when the RCMP swapped out the lead investigator for the case, and as of last June, New Brunswick’s Office of the Attorney General confirmed that it was “reviewing the file.”