Gator Snagged In Apartment Swimming Pool
Animal From Nearby Pond Likely Crawled Under Fence
POSTED: Tuesday, June 19, 2007
UPDATED: 1:40 pm EDT June 19,
2007
COCOA, Fla. -- A 6-foot alligator was caught Tuesday morning in a Cocoa apartment complex swimming pool as residents watched.The gator was found at 8 a.m. in the murky swimming pool at the AA Apartments at 1305 N. Fiske Blvd., Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported.Trappers captured the alligator at about 11 a.m.Residents said they believe the gator crawled from a nearby retention pond and wiggled under a chain-link fence surrounding the swimming pool.Code-enforcement personnel had earlier condemned the pool because of a lack of maintenance, officials said.Bill Robb, a certified gator trapper, said the reptile measured 6 feet from nose to tail. He said the alligator would be taken to an alligator farm and harvested.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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