SOUTHPORT, N.C. (WNCN) — Officers at the North Carolina coast were called last week to deal with an alligator climbing a fence and was headed toward a busy road, police said.
The incident was reported Tuesday afternoon in the Brunswick County town of Southport, according to the Southport Police Department.
Southport is about 15 miles south of Wilmington near the mouth of the Cape Fear River, adjacent to Caswell Beach, with Bald Head Island nearby…