LAKE COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) — An alligator is back in its natural habitat after it wandered into a residential area and stunned a woman who found it on her front porch.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office was called to a woman’s home when she found a gator on her front porch earlier this month.

A deputy crouched over the reptile and held it down while it tried to do its signature “death roll.”

The deputy won this fight and the gator was safely relocated.

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