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Florida Cops Oust 750-Pound, 12-Foot Alligator From Public Park

The creature may have been 100 years old.

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Jupiter Police Department

By Tracy Connor

Florida police got a call of an intruder in a public park. A very large intruder. It turns out a 750-pound alligator had found its way to Jupiter Commerce Park, where a local business owner spotted it and called police, according to the Orlando Sentinel. The officers did just what you would expect them to—they took selfies with the 12-foot creature (after its mouth was taped up). A trapper called to the scene told police he estimated the gator’s age at about 100, according to a police spokeswoman. It was taken to a gator farm in Central Florida.

This morning officers responded to an alligator call in the Jupiter Commerce Park area. This gator was almost 12 feet...

Posted by The Jupiter Police Department on Thursday, March 28, 2019
Read it at Orlando Sentinel

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