{"id":43055,"date":"2025-08-04T14:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43055\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:57:07","slug":"florida-deputy-captures-gator-from-pool-buckles-it-into-patrol-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43055\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida deputy captures gator from pool, buckles it into patrol car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A Florida deputy helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Strange_Florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Strange_Florida\/\">capture a gator<\/a> from a backyard pool in St. Augustine before buckling him in the back of his patrol car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StJohnsSheriffsOffice\/videos\/1934335683978951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StJohnsSheriffsOffice\/videos\/1934335683978951\">Video posted<\/a> Sunday on the St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office Facebook page shows the deputy wrangling the gator out of the pool with his bare hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI know, you\u2019re super mad,\u201d the deputy is heard telling the gator as he gets him out of the pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[VIDEO BELOW: Trappers capture massive gator]<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Residents of the home are heard praising the deputy with one person saying to the deputy, \u201cObviously, you grew up here.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He laughs and replies, \u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The deputy then takes the gator to the back of his patrol car and places him into the back seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cYou know what? Let me buckle you in,\u201d the deputy says, pulling the seat belt and buckling the gator in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Watch the full video at the top of this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[WATCH: 8-foot gator crawls into Florida woman\u2019s kitchen]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A Florida deputy helped capture a gator from a backyard pool in St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[37259,64,63,2755,37842,128,37261,37843,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-43055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-alligator","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-gator","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-st-johns-county","15":"tag-strange-florida","16":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}