{"id":327474,"date":"2026-08-22T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327474\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:34:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-snake-confiscated-from-man-flaunting-burmese-python-to-coney-island-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327474\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Snake Confiscated From Man Flaunting Burmese Python To Coney Island Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man showing off his Burmese python to a crowd in Coney Island got his snake taken and was ticketed, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On Thursday, the DEC put out information on the July 12 incident near the Riegelmann Boardwalk, saying an officer spotted the large snake surrounded by about a dozen people, including young children.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the agency, the man was also carrying a second snake, a ball python, around his neck while handling and showing the Burmese python to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A DEC officer asked the man about the larger snake, and he allegedly admitted it belonged to him.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The agency described the Burmese python as a dangerous species and said they are illegal to have in New York.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He got a ticket for illegal possession and the snake was confiscated.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The snake is expected to be transferred to the Nassau County SPCA.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The DEC says introducing Burmese pythons to the environment can severely impact native wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man showing off his Burmese python to a crowd in Coney Island got his snake taken and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-327474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}