DALLAS — The man charged in the escape of a cobra in Grand Prairie two years ago has been sentenced to 15 months of community supervision, according to court records. Lawrence Matl, 25, was convicted ...

Lawrence Matl received a sentence of 180 days in jail probated over 15 months, according to the district attorney's office, along with the additional caveat that he not own a pet reptile during that ...

Last summer, a Grand Prairie man’s highly venomous snake was reported missing. Months after first searching the surrounding area, the West African Banded Cobra remains at large. The owner, 23-year-old ...

Six months after Grand Prairie officials warned residents to be on the lookout for a missing cobra, police announced the arrest of the snake's owner. The cobra’s owner, Lawrence Matl, was arrested ...

A jury at a trial last month found guilty of release from captivity a man who two years ago in Grand Prairie owned a West African banded cobra that escaped from an enclosure in a house. This is a ...

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — Police officers have arrested a man for illegally releasing a West African Banded Cobra, which is still missing, into the public last summer, according to the Grand Prairie ...