Barnett says in a statement that the python appeared sluggish at first but revived once inside the box. Animal welfare workers took away the snake.
The sheriff's office says it doesn't know how the python got to the trash bin area.
Six-foot python found atop garbage truck in Ohio
CINCINNATI, OH
Hamilton County sheriff's spokesman Steve Barnett says deputies
who were summoned around 11 a.m. Thursday arrived to find the snake
on the ground with its tail wrapped around a broom belonging to the
driver. A deputy lifted the snake into a cardboard box using the
broom.
