There's an interview o the reptile guy they had come in an identify animals (after the original event) on urban jungles radio. HE said that the cage for the snake was about 8' away from where the boys were sleeping and that there was no need for it to climb into a vent and that the hole in the ceiling looked old to him (preexisting). I did not hear the whole interview, just what UJR had put up on video on youtube.
I find this all very hard to swallow... and my assumption is that there was something more intentional to this, whether that be drugging of the kids (so they wouldn't react), or something else, but common sense says that things couldn't have happened as the media and police are depicting them. Unless the police are maybe not telling all the evidence (so they can wait and charge him at trial or something)?