NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - An alligator has been detained after it was found wandering through a warehouse district parking lot.
7Skyforce hovered overhead as a Miami-Dade Police officer responded to the area near 10301 NW 112th Ave., at around 3 p.m., Friday.
He was seen tailing it closely with his police cruiser until a wrangler from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission arrived.
After the wrangler arrived, the alligator went into some bushes, where he snared it with a pole, and after the gator wore itself out rolling on the grass, the officer helped duct tape the animal’s snout shut.
Before the animal was restrained, a woman was seen coming out of the office, but she soon backed off after noticing the animal. She still took a moment to break out her phone to document it.
The officer and wrangler remained at the scene with the gator tied up and restrained, as it laid under the wrangler’s pickup truck, while a trapper was en route.
The trapper then threw the 6-foot critter into the back of his SUV like a bag of golf clubs.
The closest body of water to where this gator ended up is across the parking lot and Northwest 112th Avenue and behind another parking lot.
This wasn’t the only alligator captured Friday. Earlier, a trapper from Pesky Critters pulled one out from under a dock in Cutler Bay.
Back in Northwest Miami-Dade, workers in the area said they are getting used to alligators in their parking lot. It was the second one found there this year.
“I am afraid,” said a woman, “because sometimes I leave the office in the night.”
The alligator, FWC said, will be relocated.
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