BRIEFLY : DEPUTIES ARREST MAN, CONFISCATE PET SNAKE.LANCASTER - Deputies who arrested a visitor to a Lancaster sheriff's station inmate got quite a surprise when the man told them he had a snake in his pocket. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Deputy Dan Aleman found a 24-inch-long boa constrictor boa constrictor largest of all snakes; squeezes its victims in a deadly grip. [Zoology: NCE, 317] See : Deadliness in the jacket pocket of Van Pope Van Pope (born February 26, 1984 in Jackson, Mississippi) is a minor league baseball third baseman in the Atlanta Braves farm system. Listed at 6-feet and 200 pounds, Pope bats and throws right-handed. Entering 2007, he was rated by Baseball America as the No. , 24, of Lancaster, who came to the sheriff's station Thursday morning to visit an incarcerated incarcerated /in·car·cer·at·ed/ (in-kahr´ser-at?ed) imprisoned; constricted; subjected to incarceration. in·car·cer·at·ed adj. Confined or trapped, as a hernia. friend. Pope was arrested after deputies learned he was wanted on two outstanding traffic warrants. The snake was removed and released to a family member. Pope remains in custody. |
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