Gator blocks front door of a Boca Raton home early Sunday morning. The gator was caught as it was running around the neighborhood.
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Posted: 07/10/2011
BOCA RATON, Fla. - A seven-foot alligator was caught Sunday morning walking through a Boca Raton neighborhood.
The alligator was spotted by neighbors in the Country Park subdivision off Country Park Drive.
First, one neighbor said she saw the alligator walking through a yard and then saw it at a neighbors front door.
Three sheriffs deputies set up a perimeter around the alligator before a person from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) captured the animal.
FWC says the alligator will be processed because it is more than five-feet long.
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