A good Samaritan, police and District animal control retrieved a small alligator found in the city’s Washington Channel near the Wharf neighborhood earlier this week.
The small alligator was spotted in the channel Thursday. A bystander in the area captured him using a net.
“I saw him right there suntanning, and they tried to get it, and he splooshed right back into the water,” Phoenix Norwood, 23, told WRC-TV, adding that “I took the net, scooped him up, and then I kind of twisted the net and held it down to the ground until the authorities arrived.”…