{"id":302925,"date":"2026-05-21T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302925\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:58:09","slug":"deputies-relocate-9-5-foot-alligator-blocking-traffic-near-east-texas-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302925\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies relocate 9.5-foot alligator blocking traffic near East Texas river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Texas deputies removed a 9.5-foot alligator blocking traffic, says the Jasper County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, handing it over to Texas game wardens for relocation.<\/p>\n<p>JASPER COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A few East Texas deputies worked together to remove a large and scaly traffic hazard on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jasper County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies Bradley Morgan, Vern Kaylor and Clayton Daigle wrangled a 9.5-foot alligator on FM 1013 West that was blocking traffic about a mile from the Neches River.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office says after catching the reptile, the gator was handed over to the Texas game wardens and safely relocated.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Texas deputies removed a 9.5-foot alligator blocking traffic, says the Jasper County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, handing it over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-302925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}