Longwood FL school under lock down over black bear

Bear At School; Campus Locked Down
Bear In Tree Near Classrooms

POSTED: Monday, September 21, 2009
UPDATED: 1:01 pm EDT September 21, 2009



LONGWOOD, Fla. -- A Seminole County school is on lock down after a black bear was found on its campus.

According to Fish and Wildlife, the bear was found on Pace-Brantley Hall school property Monday morning.
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Wildlife officials charge owner of Delilah, the 18-foot python

A python named Delilah was moved by Florida Wildlife officials to a temporary home when his cage near Lake Apopka, Fla., was deemed unsuitable on Friday, Sept., 11, 2009. Brother of the owner, Melvin Cheever, left, and snake man Sam Floyd, right, wrestle the snake out into a carrying cage. She had escaped in the past. The 16 year old snake was measured at 18' long and 30" around. She will be moved to a snake handler in Bushnell, Fla. (GEORGE SKENE, ORLANDO SENTINEL / September 11, 2009)

Anthony Colarossi

Sentinel Staff Writer

5:48 p.m. EDT, September 18, 2009
APOPKA - Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have criminally charged the owner of Delilah, the 18-foot-python removed from an Apopka area backyard enclosure last week.

Robert David Cheever, 39, has been charged with unsafe housing of a reptile of concern, a second degree misdemeanor, according to Joy Hill, an FWC spokeswoman. Within 30 days Cheever can either pay a mail-in fine of $316 to the Orange County Clerk of Courts or request a day in court, Hill said in a statement.

He was also issued a warning for failing to have a reptile of concern permit and no PIT Tag, the identifying microchips inserted into such snakes.
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Wildlife officials charge owner of Delilah, the 18-foot python

400 pound Python "Biggest we've ever seen" caught in Apopka Florida

Officials capture snake in Apopka Friday.


Wildlife Officials: Biggest Python We've Ever Seen
Owner Apparently Does Not Have Permit
POSTED: 4:40 pm EDT September 11, 2009



APOPKA, Fla. -- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials were at a home in Apopka to remove "a very large Burmese python" on Friday afternoon,


Officials on the scene said it was the biggest snake they had seen in 15 years -- measuring more than 20 feet and weighing more than 400 pounds.

Its name is Delila.

The owner told a neighbor the snake was 34 inches around, said commission spokeswoman Joy Hill
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Suspect in shooting of wildlife officer arrested

Suspect in shooting of wildlife officer arrested
Christopher Eddy, 23, had been on the run for 2 days


Nature Susan Jacobson

Sentinel Staff Writer

8:34 PM EDT
July 17, 2009



A man who has been on the run for two days after the shooting of a Florida wildlife officer has been arrested.

Christopher Eddy, 23, was caught about 6:15 tonight breaking into a car at Juan Ponce de Landing, a small park in Melbourne Beach, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. The owner called 911, and a Melbourne Beach police officer saw Eddy walk out of some bushes, investigators said.

Eddy initially identified himself as Josh Adams, but the officer asked again, and Eddy admitting being the man wanted in the Wednesday night shooting of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer Vann Streety. He will be booked into the Brevard County Jail after detectives question him.
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Suspect in shooting of wildlife officer arrested


Wounded FWC officer in stable condition and good spirits
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