{"id":664762,"date":"2026-05-25T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664762\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:17:10","slug":"alligator-removed-from-southport-neighborhood-after-multiple-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664762\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator removed from Southport neighborhood after multiple sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SOUTHPORT, N.C. (WECT) &#8211; An alligator spotted roaming a Southport neighborhood Monday morning has been relocated, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Southport police said multiple callers reported seeing the large gator in a residential area along Stuart Avenue. The department said officers were able to relocate the animal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Alligator roaming a neighborhood in Southport\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/W7LJDPASE5B7PNR3LLZ2ITL6DQ.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"576\" \/>Alligator roaming a neighborhood in Southport(Southport Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Southport Police Department thanked residents for keeping the area clear during the response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHPORT, N.C. (WECT) &#8211; An alligator spotted roaming a Southport neighborhood Monday morning has been relocated, officials said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[290599,290597,290595,79,283320,290596,290598,290594,201],"class_list":["post-664762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alligator-relocated","tag-alligator-residential-neighborhood","tag-north-carolina-alligator","tag-science","tag-southport-alligator","tag-southport-police","tag-southport-police-gator","tag-stuart-avenue-alligator-sighting","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664762","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=664762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}