Six months after a man nearly died from a bite by his pet cobra, state wildlife officials have released the skin-crawling details of his Vineland horror home, a creepy den with more than a dozen cobras, pythons, tarantulas and mysteriously barricaded doors.

But it also isn’t the first odd news to involve the 55-year-old, Allan E. Carlson. News reports show he has served time in prison for an elaborate hacking scheme that targeted Philadelphia newspapers, fueled by his obsessive anger at a Philadelphia Phillies losing streak, and was also arrested for white supremacist vandalism in California.

The latest in a series of odd case involving Carlson occurred in September, when conservation officers received a report of a man bitten by a cobra. An officer responded to the still hospitalized man’s home and spoke to his mother, who said her son was attacked by an cobra at a friend’s house.

While she herself no longer drives, she described having to take the wheel for her son en route to the hospital, as his vision became too blurred to continue. She told the officer he had passed out in the parking lot and needed help getting inside, officials said.

The officer told the woman the snake might be loose in her home and could pose a threat. While she admitted her son did have snakes and fed them rats, she said she did not think they were poisonous, according to officials.

Searching the home, the officer found dozens of plastic containers holding bugs, a small office home to 30 tarantulas and his bedroom was full of more plastic containers, their lids weighed down. Snake hooks and skins were draped over a door. Another room, its door shut, had bricks and weights blocking entry, officials said.

When prompted about the barricaded room, the woman said it was where her son fed his snakes, according to officials.

The officer went to the hospital to interview Carlson, who as “uncooperative” and refused to reveal where he had been bit by the snake.

Returning with a search warrant to get behind that barricaded door, officials found two loose Reticulated Pythons, one that was over 10-feet long. With them was a loose African Forest Cobra, believed to be the one that bit its owner. All three had to be captured, and were removed with 13 other snakes, officials said. All but one were venomous.

The snakes were taken to the Cape May County Zoo, and then put in the care of a reptile handler. They will be moved to a research facility in Kentucky, according to wildlife officials.

Carlson was charged with possessing exotic wildlife without a permit and 15 counts of possessing a live potentially dangerous exotic animal without a permit, according to a state Department of Environmental Protection spokesman. The first charge was dismissed, but he pleaded guilty to possession of dangerous species and was fined $5,000.

The bizarre incident was the latest in a decades-long list of odd and criminal behavior perpetrated on both coasts by Carlson.

In 1993, he was arrested in California for stamping “earth’s most endangered species: the white race, help preserve it” in more than 30 notebooks at a supermarket. Several other area stores reported finding the same vandalism in their products, according to news reports.

In 2005, while still living in California, Carlson was sentenced to four years in prison for hacking email addresses of writers at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and other sports news outlets. He used the email addresses to spread his gripes with the Philadelphia Phillies, lamenting for 70 hours each week about how management was unwilling to spend enough money to fund a winning team, according to news reports.

He said it “never occurred” to him he was causing troubles for the Phillies or the Inquirer, but the paper’s parent organization lost an estimated $25,000 in time spent fixing email servers and sifting through the flood of tirades, according to federal prosecutors. The team’s box office went haywire, too, according to reports.

Carlson had emotional problems and an inability to control his anger, according to the reports.

He did not return phone a message seeking comment Thursday afternoon.

Amanda Hoover can be reached at ahoover@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @amandahoovernj. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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