{"id":168739,"date":"2025-09-20T00:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168739\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:55:07","slug":"mpd-says-they-safely-caught-a-small-alligator-in-the-washington-channel-wait-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168739\/","title":{"rendered":"MPD says they safely caught a small alligator in the Washington Channel \u2013 WAIT, WHAT?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/category\/wildlife\/\" class=\"block px-4 no-underline mb-4 text-sans text-md font-sans font-semibold text-posts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wildlife<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tPublished September 19, 2025 at 4:30PM<br \/>\n\t\t | <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tUpdated September 19, 2025 at 5:39PM\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-328796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/small-alligator.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"740\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Update from <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/dc\/2025\/09\/dc-man-catches-alligator-at-the-wharf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WTOP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine Phoenix Norwood\u2019s surprise when he heard there was a four-foot alligator swimming among the boats at The Wharf Marina in Southwest D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Norwood held the reptile until officials with D.C. animal control arrived to secure it. They will work with a group to relocate the animal to a more appropriate environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From MPD:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMPD Harbor Patrol responded to the Wharf Thursday for the report of a small alligator spotted in the Washington Channel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-328797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gator-net.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Our investi-gators safely caught the gator and turned him over to animal control.<\/p>\n<p>Every day is a different adventure at MPD!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you spot a hawk, any interesting wildlife or celebrity skateboarder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/2021\/11\/tony-hawk-shaw\/\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tony Hawk<\/a>, and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"e09092898e83858f86908594978f929488a0878d81898cce838f8d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>. Thanks! Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popville.com\/2009\/04\/ben-and-sylvia-gardner-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"wildlife Published September 19, 2025 at 4:30PM | Updated September 19, 2025 at 5:39PM Update from WTOP: \u201cImagine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-168739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}