{"id":666800,"date":"2026-05-26T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666800\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:43:16","slug":"alligator-spotted-roaming-through-yards-in-north-carolina-coastal-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666800\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator spotted roaming through yards in North Carolina coastal city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">A police department in a North Carolina coastal city posted photographs on social media of a large alligator roaming through yards early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">The pictures came from concerned residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">Officers safely captured and relocated the alligator, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SouthportPoliceDepartment\/posts\/pfbid0cY2GavArQhAo2R8C6fQ3sRwxbJoL1LWRkx6DzgkfpZM8jxKu5Bz2PMHo3zVe4KKul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SouthportPoliceDepartment\/posts\/pfbid0cY2GavArQhAo2R8C6fQ3sRwxbJoL1LWRkx6DzgkfpZM8jxKu5Bz2PMHo3zVe4KKul\">Southport Police Department posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/X4UNSITWKNGS7K4FWHO5FVONCQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"790\"\/>Alligator spotted roaming through yards in North Carolina coastal city Screenshot (SOUTHPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT) <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Z37OLPITEZHSZB7A2SHCYMI5RY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"807\"\/>Alligator spotted roaming through yards in North Carolina coastal city Screenshot (SOUTHPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT) <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MV575CJWHZAEFINSG6QIDWXTAM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"1086\"\/>Alligator spotted roaming through yards in North Carolina coastal city Screenshot (SOUTHPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT) <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VESCYHKTL5HHLMLBSTWRM43GD4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"709\"\/>Alligator spotted roaming through yards in North Carolina coastal city Screenshot (SOUTHPORT POLICE DEPARTMENT) <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jyMHRV body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police department in a North Carolina coastal city posted photographs on social media of a large alligator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-666800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666800","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=666800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}