{"id":227828,"date":"2026-06-25T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227828\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:15:09","slug":"state-police-seek-answers-after-snakes-found-dead-in-containers-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/227828\/","title":{"rendered":"State police seek answers after snakes found dead in containers \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are looking for answers after several snakes were found dead in clear containers abandoned along a road in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n

According to the Pennsylvania State Police, the snakes were discovered on June 8, 2026, near Route 14, north of Canton.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived at the scene to investigate, police said they found that all the snakes were inside the containers and had died.<\/p>\n

Police said that the snakes were all exotic and that their names were displayed on the containers.<\/p>\n

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State police said it’s Towanda Barracks, and the Northeast Region Office of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is conducting a joint investigation into this animal cruelty incident.<\/p>\n

“We hope that Blaze, Martin, Mr. Green, Samantha, Pearl, Larry, and SpongeBob are names you recognize and can provide information about their owner,” police wrote. <\/p>\n

Anyone with information about the possible owner of the snakes, or knowledge of the person who dumped them, is urged to contact animal cruelty officer Cpl. Spada at 717-772-5112 or MSPADA@pa.gov, PSP Towanda at 570-265-2186, or submit a tip online<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for answers after several snakes were found dead in clear containers abandoned along a road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2600,17685,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-227828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-animals","tag-animals-and-wildlife","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}