Leon also holds the overall state record with an 18-foot-8-inch python he caught in 2013. Jason Leon, who snagged this 17-foot python, also holds the Florida state record.

The previous record for a Burmese python in Florida was 18 feet, 9 inches. A video posted on Instagram shows the python being captured by Jake Waleri, 22, of Naples.

It was caught on Monday by 22-year-old Jake Waleri, who brought the python to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in his hometown of Naples, the conservancy said.Officials there measured the ...