{"id":588222,"date":"2026-04-07T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588222\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:00:15","slug":"rattlesnake-found-in-texas-bedroom-police-share-misleading-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588222\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnake found in Texas bedroom, police share misleading photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 6, 2026, 11:51 a.m. ET<\/p>\n

The Del Rio Police Department in Texas recently announced the removal of a large rattlesnake from the bedroom of a local residence.<\/p>\n

The striking image accompanying the news release shows a woman\u2019s sandal in front of a large snake coiled beneath a bed.<\/p>\n

The Facebook announcement<\/a> generated hundreds of shares and comments, in large part because of what turned out to be a misleading image.<\/p>\n

\"Rattlesnake<\/p>\n

“They would have to remove me cause I ain\u2019t coming back,\u201d reads a top comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can have the house and the shoes,\u201d another follower remarked.<\/p>\n

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The news release reads, in part: “On March 23, 2026, at approximately 11:54 p.m., officers from the Del Rio Police Department responded to the 100 block of Irene Avenue in reference to an animal complaint. Upon arrival, officers discovered a rattlesnake inside a bedroom of the residence.<\/p>\n

“Officers immediately evacuated the occupants to ensure their safety and requested assistance from Del Rio Animal Services. Animal Services responded to the scene and removed the snake without incident.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the Del Rio Police Department issued its news release, media outlets jumped on the story, mainly because of the image.<\/p>\n

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The problem with the image? It\u2019s five years old, involving a different rattlesnake found beneath the bed of a home in Arizona. (Video footage of that incident can be viewed here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Bryan Hughes of Rattlesnake Solutions, which relocated the pregnant western diamondback, has tried to have the image removed or at least explained by outlets that used the photo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our photo, taken years ago here in Phoenix, Arizona,\u201d Hughes stated in the comments of the Rio Police Department\u2019s post.<\/p>\n

The department did include a barely visible watermark, reading, \u201cPhoto for reference.\u201d But perhaps it could have been more clear in its news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 6, 2026, 11:51 a.m. ET The Del Rio Police Department in Texas recently announced the removal of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[159202,49,48,66,167945,167946,188787,162523,172742,164249,161765,177102,167615,159750,224362,177101,183722,162635,159085,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-588222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-sstssportsoutdoors","13":"tag-sstsnoutdoors","14":"tag-taganimal-welfare","15":"tag-tagfacebook","16":"tag-taglaw-enforcement","17":"tag-taglocal-news","18":"tag-tagnews","19":"tag-tagoffbeat","20":"tag-tagonline-image-galleries","21":"tag-tagoverall-negative","22":"tag-tagrattlesnakes","23":"tag-tagreptiles-amphibians","24":"tag-tagtexas","25":"tag-tagwildlife","26":"tag-typestory","27":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}