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Police seize ball python from Waialua home

By Star-Advertiser staff

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LAST UPDATED: 06:13 p.m. HST, Jul 22, 2011

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
A Ball Python was turned in under the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture's amnesty program in Wailua on Friday. The female snake measured at 3ft 6 in and was estimated to be about 3.5 years old. Full grown the ball python can reach 6 ft. This was the fifth snake turned in to the Hawaii Department of Agriculture this month and the 13th illegal reptile.

Police seized a snake from a Waialua home today after someone called Crime Stoppers to report it. It is the 13th illegal reptile taken in by state officials since June 29.

State agriculture officials said it is a 3-foot, 6-inch ball python. Officers went to the home today and took the snake to the state Department of Agriculture Plant Quarantine Branch near Sand Island.

Since June 29, Department of Agriculture officials have taken in 13 illegal animals, including five snakes.

All but one of the 13 were brought into custody under the state’s amnesty program, which provides immunity from prosecution for owning or transporting an illegal animal. The other animal, a boa constrictor, was found by hunters July 4 in Waiawa.






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