Beachgoers encountered quite the surprise after seeing a man walking the Coney Island boardwalk holding a massive snake, later identified as a Burmese python.

While patrolling Coney Island, an environmental police officer came across a man flexibly handling two snakes. The larger specimen was a Burmese python, a species deemed illegal in New York. The ...

“On July 12, [Officer] Maynard observed a large snake near Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island with a crowd of about a dozen people, including small children, gathered around it,” the NYSDEC ...

A man who drew a crowd of about a dozen people, including some small children, with the python near the Riegelmann Boardwalk last month has been ticketed for illegally possessing the snake, state ...