text: Saturday, August 9 2014, 03:10 PM EDT 
   
   MUST SEE: Large python that has been eating Port St. Lucie neighborhood's cats captured by cops ||||| Florida cops are reporting the capture of a large snake who neighbors suspect was feasting on their cherished feline pets. 
   
   Port St. Lucie police officers nabbed the 12-foot, 120-pound Burmese python Friday after responding to reports of an extremely large snake on a block with homes. Police said the python killed one neighborhood cat and may be responsible for the recent disappearance of several others. 
   
   WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach said Sgt. John Holman found a dead cat and then found the snake hidden in waist-high brush. Other officers responded to help him remove the snake. 
   
   Florida banned Burmese pythons in 2012. Police said the captured python belonged to an owner who had a license to keep it.
target: – A giant python's reign of terror may be over. A Port St. Lucie, Florida, police officer found the 12-foot, 120-pound creature two days ago—at the scene of one of its alleged crimes. The snake was discovered in brush not far from a dead cat, WTSP reports. Locals and police believe the cat was one of several feline victims whose disappearance has been blamed on the alleged cat-eating snake, Fox News reports. Though Burmese pythons were banned in Florida two years ago, this snake's owner had a license, police say, per Fox. Experts think pythons have been eating mammals native to the area, WTSP notes, and though this python scare is over, there could be more to come, CBS 12 reports.