{"id":289666,"date":"2025-11-13T19:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/289666\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:20:12","slug":"tiny-alligator-spotted-on-video-in-bostons-charles-river-has-been-found-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/289666\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny alligator spotted on video in Boston&#8217;s Charles River has been found safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/charles-river-boston-alligator\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tiny alligator<\/a> that was spotted in the Charles River in Boston has been found safe.<\/p>\n<p>The alligator was first seen last weekend by Trevor Rochelle who recorded video of it wading back into the river.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Believe me, it was real. I am not pulling anyone&#8217;s leg,&#8221; he told WBZ-TV Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for animal control in Boston said they went out to the river Sunday but couldn&#8217;t find the alligator.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gator-in-the-charles-5p-pkg-transfer-frame-1193.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Alligator charles river \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Trevor Rochelle shows he video he took of a small alligator in the Charles River in Boston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS Boston<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Joe Kenney of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/joescrazzycritters.com\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe&#8217;s Crazzy Critters<\/a>&#8221; took a shot at tracking down the gator because he said it would be in danger in the colder weather.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With some luck and a couple of bright flashlights after 15 minutes I found the Boston alligator,&#8221; he wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joescrazzycritters\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was able to capture him safely and he will be warm and housed until we get more information and instructions on what&#8217;s next for this little guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kenney, who is also the animal control officer in Hanson, Massachusetts, is hoping the alligator will become a part of Joe&#8217;s Crazzy Critters, an educational reptile show he started back in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tiny alligator that was spotted in the Charles River in Boston has been found safe. The alligator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6619,8731,79,201],"class_list":["post-289666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alligator","tag-boston","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289666","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=289666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}