PROSPERITY — Around two weeks ago, the Newberry County Sheriff’s Office received an unusual call.

A large snake was on the loose and was last seen crossing U.S. Highway 76 near Mid-Carolina High School . Sheriff’s deputies went to investigate, but by the time they got there the reptile in question was gone.

The person who spotted the snake had snapped a photo and showed it to the sheriff’s deputies.

“It was a huge snake obviously, not a native snake,” Sheriff Lee Foster told The Post and Courier.

It was then that Warren Gallman, a local man with a farm that had all kinds of animals, took it upon himself to find the snake. “He said, ‘I’m going to find (it),’” Foster said.

Gallman made good on his word. On the night of Aug. 18, he and two other men found the snake not too far from wh

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