CHICAGO, IL – Cook County Sheriff’s Eviction Unit deputies found an unusual inhabitant of a Chicago apartment this morning: a three-foot Burmese Python, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said today.
About 8:40 a.m. Tuesday, deputies enforcing a court-ordered eviction in the 500 block of East Bowen Avenue in Chicago found the python in an aquarium located in a bedroom of the apartment.
Cook County Sheriff’s Eviction Unit Deputy in possession of Python.
The apartment was unoccupied at the time. The City of Chicago Animal Control was called and removed the snake.
No injuries to the deputies or the snake were reported.
This isn’t the first time Eviction Unit deputies have found a reptile while enforcing a court order. During an eviction on Feb. 27 in the 4500 block of West George Street in Chicago, a 2-foot long alligator was found in an aquarium. No human residents were home.
Chicago Animal Control was called to take custody of the reptile.
In September 2012 a light-colored Burmese Python was found outside in Waukegan. Pythons in Florida are major problem as an invasive species killing off natural species that inhabit Florida — especially the Everglades.
Map of area of neighborhood where a Python was found in an apartment in Chicago …
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