Video shows police wrestling alligator in Central Florida backyard

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call over the weekend about an alligator lounging outside a Central Florida home that deputies eventually wrangled and captured.

The call, the office says, came from a woman who said the alligator was on her front porch in Clermont. In a video shared by the sheriff’s office, two deputies are seen following the large animal from the front porch to the home’s backyard, which the gator got to by ramming open a fence attached to the home.

The officers are seen securing the alligator with rope before one wrestles the animal down and mounts it. The other tapes the gator’s mouth shut…

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