{"id":224889,"date":"2026-04-09T14:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224889\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:19:27","slug":"tampa-police-remove-alligator-from-homeowners-pool-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224889\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Police remove alligator from homeowner\u2019s pool &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Police in Tampa had their hands full while dealing with a predator in the pool. <\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a homeowner\u2019s call of a reptile break-in. The caller had noticed a nine-foot alligator had decided to take a solo swim inside their pool. <\/p>\n<p>Working with a trapper, they were able to safely remove the scaly suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows the gator splashing in the water as it rejected officers\u2019 attempts to wrangle it. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, nuisance alligators larger than four feet cannot be relocated and are euthanized. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Police in Tampa had their hands full while dealing with a predator in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-224889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224889","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=224889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}