{"id":254899,"date":"2026-05-02T03:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254899\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:04:11","slug":"live-iguanas-with-feet-zip-tied-found-during-traffic-stop-in-central-florida-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254899\/","title":{"rendered":"Live iguanas with feet zip-tied found during traffic stop in central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (WFTV) &#8211; Florida Highway Patrol said that a traffic stop in Winter Haven led to the discovery of 13 live iguanas in the bed of a pickup truck, many with their feet zip-tied behind their backs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Thursday, troopers stopped a Ford pickup towing a utility trailer because the trailer\u2019s tag light was not working. The driver, identified as Rendon Casildo-Acdiel, was found to have a suspended Georgia driver\u2019s license, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After a K-9 alerted to the vehicle, troopers searched the truck and found coolers containing iced tilapia along with the live iguanas. FHP said the iguanas were turned over to a local rescue shelter while the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission leads the wildlife investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFTV via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (WFTV) &#8211; Florida Highway Patrol said that a traffic stop in Winter Haven led to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,15748,30,618,3475,29,8580,35986,27205,29137,110894],"class_list":["post-254899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-florida-man","tag-florida-news","tag-ford","tag-highway-patrol","tag-iguana","tag-trailer","tag-zip-tie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254899","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=254899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}