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Wed Oct 6, 2021, 03:33 PM Oct 2021

2-foot-long alligator caught on Detroit-area street

RIVERVIEW, Mich. (AP) — Southeastern Michigan’s Riverview never will be confused with the Florida Everglades, but it sure looked like home to a baby alligator found roaming through one of its neighborhoods.

Police responded Sunday night to a report of the reptile and found the 2-foot-long (.6-meter-long) alligator walking in a street. Officers later placed the alligator with a local expert on reptiles. Riverview is southwest of Detroit.

The gator is not the first to be captured outdoors this year in Michigan. A 3-foot-long (.9-meter-long) alligator was removed last month from a Tuscola County pond, about 86 miles (138 kilometers) north of Detroit.

In August, a city worker used a fishing pole and lure to snag another 3-foot-long alligator from a sewage pond in Stanton, 154 miles (247 kilometers) northwest of Detroit.

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-michigan-detroit-reptiles-alligators-a14b2b72cb5ca082db2bb4eb33909588

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2-foot-long alligator caught on Detroit-area street (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Oct 2021 OP
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