6-foot-long Boa Constrictor found in Brecksville not on list of 7 illegal reptiles to own in Ohio

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -On Monday, a 6-foot-long Boa Constrictor was found in a woman’s front yard in Brecksville.

The snake was captured and sent to a sanctuary in South Euclid, and investigators believe someone may have set the snake free.

Ohio has very strict and defined laws about what dangerous wild animals, and snakes a person can own.

Looking into the Ohio law, the Boa Constrictor is not on the list of snakes a person can own.

The only constricting snakes that are illegal with out a permit, are the following snakes, and only if they are over 12 feet long:

• Green anacondas
• Yellow anacondas
• Indian pythons
• Burmese pythons
• North African rock pythons
• South African rock pythons
• Amethystine python

Also restricted are any snakes from the following families:

• Atractaspididae
• Elapidae
• Viperidae
• Boomslang snakes
• Twig snakes

Now dumping such snakes in Ohio is very illegal and in the most serious cases a person could face a felony.