{"id":569655,"date":"2026-04-07T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569655\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:17:10","slug":"rattlesnake-found-in-texas-bedroom-police-share-misleading-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/569655\/","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

<\/p>\n

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":569656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[182817,79,191603,191604,189190,191013,183414,183415,183426,191607,184350,183265,251319,189157,188263,186364,182820,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-569655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-sstssportsoutdoors","11":"tag-sstsnoutdoors","12":"tag-taganimal-welfare","13":"tag-tagfacebook","14":"tag-taglaw-enforcement","15":"tag-taglocal-news","16":"tag-tagnews","17":"tag-tagoffbeat","18":"tag-tagonline-image-galleries","19":"tag-tagoverall-negative","20":"tag-tagrattlesnakes","21":"tag-tagreptiles-amphibians","22":"tag-tagtexas","23":"tag-tagwildlife","24":"tag-typestory","25":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}