LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) — Residents in Lee County were greeted by one of their swamp neighbors.
A video posted to the Sheriff’s Department’s social media captured the moment deputies caught a nine-foot-long alligator in front of a resident’s home.
The reptile went into a defensive death roll and tried to escape before it was subdued and safely removed from the area.
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