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VA Tech police are looking for leads on a cache of exotic pets found in a section of the university’s underground steam tunnel network. The animals included 2 constrictor-like snakes, a black widow spider, a tarantula, 2 unidentified lizards, a frog, a rabbit, 3 miche and a cage of crickets.

A pet venomous snake that went missing about three weeks ago from a home is still unaccounted for. The snake is a monocled cobra. An Abilene Zoo herpetologist and a Texas Parks & Wildlife Department park ranger, among others, have been hunting it since mid-January since it was reported missing from the home of a 41-year old man who was in the Brown County Jail at the time.

Adelor, an 18-year-old male lion, was euthanized due to age-related health problems.

14 reptiles, including a 10 alligators and 4 giant pythons, were rescued from a hoarder in Arizona are recovering at Gatorland in Kissimmee, Florida.

A spotted leopard that was one of the six survivors from the Zanesville massacre was euthanized after it was hit by a lowering hydraulic door between two enclosures and suffered a severed spinal cord injury.

Two Jacksonville men, father and son, were arrested on multiple charges of captive wildlife law violations involving venomous snakes and conditional reptile species according to FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The reptiles included 2 Gaboon vipers, a diamondback rattlesnake, a mangrove snake, an African rock python, Burmese python, and a green anaconda. The two men had been cited in the past for violations related to captive alligators and crocodiles. The snakes were confiscated.

Police are investigating the theft of a boa constrictor from a Petco store in Downer’s Grove, Illinois. A customer saw a man and a woman taking a ball boa constrictor from a cage and alerted employees. The live snake was replaced with a dead one.

An illegal snake was accidentally killed by landscapers cutting grass on Oahu. Police were notified and the snake was turned over to inspectors with the HI Dept of Agriculture. Snakes are illegal to possess and transport to HI because of the threat they pose to native animal populations.

A Rhode Island man faces charges after investigators found he kept dozens of poisonous snakes and a pet skunk as pets.

A man selling exotic snakes in a Philadelphia parking lot out of his Toyota Rav4 was shot by the would-be buyer from New York. The suspect then took off with the seller’s car with 20 ball pythons worth $12,600. The car was found crashed with the snakes still inside. Police also recovered a pair of handguns the suspect threw out as he fled.