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Photos show Jason Leon after capturing the snake and Univ. of Florida personnel showing its length. (Courtesy FWC)
By Florida Fish and Wildlife
A Miami man has caught and killed the longest Burmese python ever captured in Florida: 18 feet, 8 inches.
The python was a 128-pound female that was not carrying eggs, according to University of Florida scientists who examined the snake. The previous record length for a Burmese python captured in the wild in Florida was 17 feet, 7 inches.
On May 11, Jason Leon was riding late at night in a rural area of southeast Miami-Dade County when he and his passenger spotted the python. About 3 feet of the snake was sticking out of the roadside brush. Leon stopped his car, grabbed the snake behind its head and started dragging it out of the brush.
When the snake began to wrap...