A baby alligator found itself in the wrong kind of swamp this week when Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies were called to an apartment complex in Gainesville, Florida.
On Tuesday morning, Deputies E. Miller and J. Meurer, along with Field Service Technician K. Cullen, responded to reports of a hatchling alligator roaming the complex. Body-camera footage shared by the Sheriff’s Office shows the trio carefully corralling the young reptile and safely returning it to nearby wetlands.
Lisa Sacaccio, from the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, told Newsweek: “The call came in from a resident of the apartment complex at approximability 7:12 a.m. The caller advised that people in the area who saw it were afraid of it. By 7:36 a.m., the gator was captured and, shortly after 7:45 a.m., it was released in a nearby pond.”…