{"id":475499,"date":"2025-12-27T18:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475499\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T18:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:57:18","slug":"fwc-officers-remove-really-big-alligator-from-miami-dade-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475499\/","title":{"rendered":"FWC officers remove \u2018really big\u2019 alligator from Miami-Dade neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM<\/p>\n<p>Video shows &#8216;really big&#8217; alligator in Miami-Dade neighborhood <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Witnesses reported a large alligator was ambling across a front yard in Miami-Dade County\u2019s Westchester neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/12\/26\/agentes-de-la-fwc-retiran-un-caiman-realmente-grande-de-un-vecindario-de-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/12\/26\/agentes-de-la-fwc-retiran-un-caiman-realmente-grande-de-un-vecindario-de-miami-dade\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Armando Rodriguez said his son noticed the long reptile on surveillance video on Friday and described it in Spanish as \u201creally big!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rodriguez called 911, andFlorida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers responded. The neighborhood has canals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> After the alligator rolled around a little, the officers managed to stabilize it and later taped its U-shaped snout before the removal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Janine Stanwood\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/21e83aab-f6c0-4437-b3.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Janine Stanwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Janine Stanwood is a Emmy award-winning reporter and anchor. She joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM Updated:\u00a0December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM Video shows &#8216;really big&#8217; alligator in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":475500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-475499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115793064995705494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}