{"id":71035,"date":"2025-12-04T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71035\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:03:11","slug":"florida-deputies-wrangle-14-foot-600-pound-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71035\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida deputies wrangle 14-foot, 600-pound alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video: Florida deputies wrangle 14-foot, 600-pound alligator blocking roadway<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet on the leg, get on the leg. Everybody get on the leg. Get on the leg. Everybody, I need, I need someone on that leg right there. No, pick it up, pick it up. Pick it up. Hold on, hold on, hold on Yeah I got the tail. Oh Hey ***. What&#8217;s up, up in the air. There you go. Yeah There we go.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Video: Florida deputies wrangle 14-foot, 600-pound alligator blocking roadway<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764856991_688_wesh.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WESH logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 8:36 AM EST Dec 4, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMultiple deputies sprang into action to remove a 14-foot alligator that was obstructing a roadway in Sarasota County.The Sarasota County Sheriff&#8217;s Office posted a video on Facebook showing seven of its deputies and a skilled trapper lifting the 600-pound alligator from a street. The video continues to show the deputies using all their strength to place the alligator in the back of a pickup truck. The alligator was safely released at an alligator farm, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office. Related content\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSARASOTA, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Multiple deputies sprang into action to remove a 14-foot alligator that was obstructing a roadway in Sarasota County.<\/p>\n<p>The Sarasota County Sheriff&#8217;s Office posted a video on Facebook showing seven of its deputies and a skilled trapper lifting the 600-pound alligator from a street. <\/p>\n<p>The video continues to show the deputies using all their strength to place the alligator in the back of a pickup truck. <\/p>\n<p>The alligator was safely released at an alligator farm, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n<p>Related content<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video: Florida deputies wrangle 14-foot, 600-pound alligator blocking roadway Get on the leg, get on the leg. Everybody&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14189,7863,40912,1292,28,34967,30,29,40910,660,14405,16878,4135,2631,40911,728,5056,1045],"class_list":["post-71035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-action","tag-alligator","tag-back","tag-facebook","tag-florida","tag-florida-deputy","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-multiple-deputy","tag-office","tag-pickup-truck","tag-roadway","tag-sarasota-county","tag-sheriff","tag-skilled-trapper","tag-street","tag-strength","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71035","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=71035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}