{"id":691429,"date":"2026-06-08T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691429\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:44:13","slug":"alligator-wrangled-by-cops-after-being-mistaken-for-amazon-package-indy-tv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691429\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator wrangled by cops after being mistaken for Amazon package | Indy TV &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police were forced to wrangle an alligator from a Texas porch after the homeowner initially mistook the animal for an Amazon package. <\/p>\n<p>Body-cam footage shows officers from Fulshear Police Department approaching the house Wednesday (June 3). The alligator can be seen lying still on the porch while the homeowner watches from behind a screen door. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI banged into him with the screen door, and I go, \u2018I thought it was an Amazon package\u2019, \u201d the man tells the officers. <\/p>\n<p>The cops were able to capture the reptile and released him back into open waters nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were forced to wrangle an alligator from a Texas porch after the homeowner initially mistook the animal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[297716,297715,79,201],"class_list":["post-691429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-optamatchid2562254","tag-optauuid51i8bgm45ruiglvkbgnyb6ihg","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691429","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=691429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}