Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Pastor KY wants snakes confiscated in Tenn.

MIDDLESBORO, Kentucky (AP) — a pastor Eastern Kentucky wildlife officials want Tennessee to return five venomous snakes confiscated in Knoxville.

Gregory coots, which is known as Jamie coots, is Pastor at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus name in Middlesboro. Coots can handle snakes as part of worship services.

Bought three endangered Rattlesnake and two copperheads in Alabama on January 31, said WYMT-TV (http://bit.ly/Z9XKYW). As he was driving through Knoxville, police stopped coots for dark window and I saw the cages containing the snakes. A wildlife officer confiscated them.

General Prosecutor's Office of the district in Knoxville says coots is accused of illegally possessing and transporting wild animals.

Coots was similarly accused in Kentucky in 2008. He said he now has a permission for snakes in Kentucky.


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