{"id":18040,"date":"2025-10-23T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/18040\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:08:12","slug":"video-florida-gator-found-hiding-in-orlando-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/18040\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Florida gator found hiding in Orlando apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6543C0190809AC92E6A49D58B1ECF3CD.jpg\" alt=\"Alligator found hiding in apartment complex\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/science\/wild-nature\/alligators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">alligator<\/a> was found hiding in an Orlando apartment complex on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police stepped in to remove the wayward alligator. Bodycam footage posted by the Orlando Police Department shows officers cornering the six-foot reptile at an address on Lake Debra Drive and covering it with a towel.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/tampa-police-host-regional-k9-water-training-adventure-island\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa police host regional K9 water training at Adventure Island<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officers are seen dragging the alligator to the backyard of the complex and wrapping its mouth with tape before loading it onto a police vehicle. The reptile was then released back into nearby Lake Mann.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The alligator nor any officers were injured during the intervention, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was gathered by Storyful.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/science\/wild-nature\/alligators\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alligators<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; An alligator was found hiding in an Orlando apartment complex on Tuesday. The backstory: Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13925,47,28,30,29,115,554,628,14992],"class_list":{"0":"post-18040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-alligators","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wild-nature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}