{"id":223083,"date":"2026-04-08T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223083\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:30:46","slug":"trapper-police-wrangle-9-foot-alligator-found-in-tampa-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223083\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapper, police wrangle 9-foot alligator found in Tampa pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Tampa police and an alligator trapper wrangled a \u201cFlorida-style uninvited guest,\u201d which was found in a pool on March 29, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1264354735286833\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:footage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;footage&quot;}\" class=\"link \">footage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tampa Police Department posted body camera footage of officers as they responded to an intruder call in Arbor Greene. Officers found a 9-foot alligator in the screened-in pool area of the callers\u2019 home.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Officers found a 9-foot gator in the screened-in pool area of the callers' home.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"542\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8ab99c3de17d0926aa598a751a83aa72.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Officers found a 9-foot gator in the screened-in pool area of the callers&#8217; home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Body camera footage shows a nuisance alligator trapper dragging the \u201cscaly suspect\u201d into the pool. The trapper said the alligator would tire himself while swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers and a trapper pulled the alligator out of the pool and placed it in the back of a truck.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Officers and a trapper pulled the alligator out of the pool and placed him in the back of a truck.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"542\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f66adbb6b0933fcba8f33d631df4449b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Officers and a trapper pulled the alligator out of the pool and placed him in the back of a truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/wildlifehabitats\/wildlife\/alligator\/snap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission<\/a>, nuisance alligators cannot be relocated and are typically euthanized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Tampa police and an alligator trapper wrangled a \u201cFlorida-style uninvited guest,\u201d which was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7863,15748,1554,135,137,136,9822],"class_list":["post-223083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-alligator","tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","tag-pool","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223083","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=223083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}