A five-foot python was found under a sink inside an Upper West Side apartment, and now police are trying to figure out how it got there and to whom it may have belonged.
This snake was found slithering in the one jungle where it definitely doesn't belong: the concrete jungle.
A five-foot python was found under a sink inside an Upper West Side apartment, and now police are trying to figure out how it got there and to whom it may belong.
Police responded to calls at 8 a.m. Wednesday to a building on West 87th Street after one person said the snake was under a sink in the apartment. Multiple others had contacted police to report seeing the animal slithering up the exterior of a building and trying to enter a basement apartment.
Officers got to the home and took the snake, a brown and beige colored python, to the ASPCA. Manhattan Animal Care and Control named the python Severus, after the head of the Slytherin House in the "Harry Potter" series. It was being cared for by a foster guardian outside of the city.
The reptile did not appear to be harmed. Bodycam footage showed an officer with the Emergency Service Unit carrying out the sneaky serpent, with the officer's partner heard saying "he's starting to constrict you."
It was not clear where the snake came from or how it got under the sink. Unless the owner has a Dangerous Animal License, it is illegal to own a python (or any constrictor snake) in New York.
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An investigation is ongoing.
