{"id":325712,"date":"2026-07-01T07:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325712\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:32:22","slug":"alligator-head-found-dumped-along-state-road-82-in-lee-county-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325712\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator head found dumped along State Road 82 in Lee County | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Florida wildlife officials are looking into how an alligator head ended up discarded along a roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission<\/a> said it is aware of the discarded alligator head found along State Road 82 in Lee County and is now looking into what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Killing an alligator outside of the established hunting season or without the proper permits is illegal, according to the FWC.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can report it to the FWC&#8217;s Wildlife Alert Program by calling 888-404-3922, submitting a tip online or using the FWC Wildlife Alert app. Tips can be made anonymously.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Florida wildlife officials are looking into how an alligator head ended up discarded along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7863,134712,45753,209,211,210,3961,28],"class_list":["post-325712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-alligator","tag-alligator-head","tag-american-alligator","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fish-and-wildlife-conservation-commission","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325712","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=325712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}