{"id":445792,"date":"2026-11-03T04:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445792\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T04:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:32:12","slug":"video-florida-deputys-bodycam-video-shows-gator-wrangling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445792\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Florida deputy&#8217;s bodycam video shows gator wrangling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/793f47c8-6ef6-41d4-b0de-fb642812c23f_1793374803.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Madilyn Destefano\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793680332_996_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"National Desk Staff\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A sheriff&#8217;s deputy in Florida successfully captured a gator that was attempting to crawl under a fence.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Osceola County Deputy Nicholas Pippin managed to grab the gator, tape its mouth shut with his bare hands, and secure it in the back of his patrol car. His body-camera video recorded the whole thing as he remained calm. In the video, he estimated that the gator weighed at least 40 pounds.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The gator was later released into Lake Cecile, which is around 20 miles southeast of Orlando.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">See the video in the player above<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sheriff&#8217;s deputy in Florida successfully captured a gator that was attempting to crawl under a fence. Osceola&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[173503,40912,173500,135331,1009,173499,68178,28,34967,30,29,173498,53629,173502,113852,14353,50501,15618,1045,55721,918,173501,4624],"class_list":["post-445792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alligator-video","tag-back","tag-bare-hand","tag-bodycam-video","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-deputy-nicholas-pippin","tag-fence","tag-florida","tag-florida-deputy","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gator-wrangling","tag-jsnd","tag-lake-cecile","tag-mouth","tag-nature","tag-osceola-county-deputy","tag-patrol-car","tag-video","tag-viral-video","tag-wesh","tag-whole-thing","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445792","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=445792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}