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Pastor Wants His Snakes Back

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Posted by: EricWI at Wed Feb 13 14:32:38 2013  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by EricWI ]  
   

Kentucky Pastor Wants His Snakes Back from the Government

(MIDDLESBORO, Ky.) — An eastern Kentucky pastor wants Tennessee wildlife officials to return five venomous snakes confiscated in Knoxville.

Gregory Coots, who’s known as Jamie Coots, is pastor of at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro. Coots handles the snakes as part of worship services.

(PHOTOS: Happy Year of the Snake)

He told WYMT-TV in Hazard he bought three rattlesnakes and two copperheads in Alabama on Jan. 31. While he was driving through Knoxville, police stopped Coots for dark window tinting and saw the cages containing the snakes. A state wildlife officer confiscated them.

The district attorney general’s office in Knoxville says Coots is charged with illegally possessing and transporting wildlife.

Coots was similarly charged in Kentucky in 2008. He said he now has a permit for snakes in Kentucky.
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