DENVER (KDVR) – One Wheat Ridge police officer found a lot more than the common paraphernalia when he was searching a car for drugs.
While checking park trailheads on Sunday night, an officer saw a car with drug paraphernalia in it. According to the department’s social media, the owner arrived at the vehicle in Prospect Park and told police the car was lent to a friend.
The owner allowed an officer to search the vehicle who found a lot more than drugs in the car.
While the officer was searching the car, he found drugs, a gun and a large plastic bin. The officer’s body camera footage shows him opening the bin only to find a large rattlesnake inside.
The rattle can be heard from the body camera video.
“Yo, you got a rattlesnake in here? What the (expletive) dude. Are you kidding me? There’s a (expletive) live rattlesnake in this bin,” the officer said when he opened up the bin.
In the video, the car owner appeared just as shocked as the officer.
“Does he have any other thing that might bite me?” the officer said when he was looking through the rest of the car.
The vehicle owner will not face charges at this time. Police are still trying to contact the friend, as they still have “a lot of questions.”
The full-body camera video is posted on the Wheat Ridge Police Department’s social media accounts, where you can see the officer first discover the rattlesnake during – what he thought – was just a drug bust.
According to the department, the police booked the drugs and the gun but left the snake. The police recommended the owner take it to the 24-hour vet.
Maddie Rhodes
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