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Officials search for missing pet cobra in Florida

In September, a school in Orlando was forced to keep students inside as state wildlife officials searched for an 8-foot-long venomous king cobra.

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“We captured it with no incidents”, said Officer Stuart Spoede, of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Redford lives in the home next to Pellicer’s, but said she wasn’t aware he owned venemous snakes.

An Asian monocled cobra, missing for several days in an East Ft. However, none of the other remaining reptiles in his inventory were missing.

A woman who answered the door at Pellicer’s home declined to comment.

Wildlife officials euthanized a whale Saturday morning that beached itself on Mickler’s Landing in St. Johns County. “We are working with them and that’s all”.

Spoede said Pellicer violated rules by not reporting that the snake was gone.

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“I was hoping it wouldn’t because I knew it was close so I was like, ‘anywhere but the yard is fine, ‘ but right next to the house-good to know”, Dylan Deriso explained. “You would think that it would die when it got on the beach”, one beach-goer said to CBS affiliate WJAX. “Members of the public should not approach or attempt to capture this snake”.

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