ST AUGUSTINE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office (SJSO) had an interesting call when they were asked to help remove an unexpected guest from a backyard pool in a St. Augustine home.<\/p>\n
Bodycam footage from the incident shows a deputy skillfully wrangling an alligator that had made itself comfortable by sunbathing in the pool.<\/p>\n
Residents of the home remarked on how the deputy wrangled the alligator, humorously noting, “Florida grown at its finest.”<\/p>\n
See also: Alligator breaks into Jensen Beach home, takes a dip in the pool<\/a><\/p>\n While the alligator seemed less than thrilled about having its pool time cut short and the ride in the patrol car, the deputy ensured it was safely secured. <\/p>\n SJSO said that the alligator was buckled in for its journey and later relocated to a nearby pond, away from human activities.<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST AUGUSTINE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office (SJSO) had an interesting call when they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31099,49,48,31103,6388,31100,31102,31105,66,31104,31101,323],"class_list":["post-44015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alligator","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-deputy","tag-florida","tag-patrol-car","tag-pool-party","tag-relocated","tag-science","tag-st-augustine","tag-st-johns-county","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}