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LAKE WORTH, Texas<\/strong> – Texas game wardens are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is illegally shooting alligators at the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge on Lake Worth.<\/p>\n Reward offered in alligator shootings:<\/strong> <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Between May and July 2026, at least three alligators were shot at the nature refuge. Two of the animals were killed and their carcasses were left to waste, while a third survived after game wardens discovered it with a crossbow bolt still lodged in its body.<\/p>\n The reward is being offered through Operation Game Thief, Texas’ wildlife crime stoppers program.<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Authorities urge anyone with information about the shootings to contact Operation Game Thief at 1-800-792-4263 (GAME), report online at tpwd.texas.gov\/warden\/connect\/ogt, or submit a tip using the Texas OGT mobile app. Tips can also be sent via text by sending the keyword “TXOGT” followed by the information to 847411. Callers may remain anonymous.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this article is from the Texas Game Wardens.<\/p>\n Lake Worth<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article LAKE WORTH, Texas – Texas game wardens are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":991175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,41192,50,8047,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-991174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-lake-worth","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117066047188362487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991174","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=991174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}