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Suspects Ditch Car but Leave 10-Foot Python after Calif. Police Chase

Aug. 26, 2024

When Vallejo police tried stopping a vehicle involved in an illegal street sideshow, the suspects fled about 10 miles to Hercules before abandoning the car and leaving behind a 10-foot-long python.

By Don Sweeney

Source The Charlotte Observer

Vallejo, CA, police recovered a 10-foot-long python Friday that suspects left behind in a car after officers tried to pull them over while breaking up a illegal street sideshow.

Officers chasing down a 2007 Cadillac CT6 fleeing a sideshow got a surprise when they pulled it over — a 10-foot-long python inside the car, California police reported.

Sideshows are illegal street takeovers in which drivers spin doughnuts and perform other stunts before crowds of spectators. They are increasingly common in California.

Officers responding to a sideshow in Vallejo at 11:12 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, reported people in the Cadillac were shining lasers at pilots of a California Highway Patrol aircraft and at cops on the ground, the Vallejo Police Department said in a news release.

Officers tried to pull the Cadillac over but the driver took off, police said. They pursued the car for about 10 miles to Hercules, according to police, where the people in the car bailed out.

They left a 10-foot-long python inside the Cadillac, police said.

Officers apprehended four people and returned the python to its owner, police said.

Vallejo is about a 60-mile drive southwest from Sacramento.

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