Responding to a 911 call, officers of the Lakeland, Florida, Police Department observed an alligator swimming in a lake with the body of a man in its mouth.
They frightened the alligator and recovered the dead body of the man. The man is presently unidentified. The last time there was an occurrence like this in Lakeland, it was believed that the dead man was a homeless man who had died before the alligator took his body.
Police and a licensed alligator trapper have been pursuing the alligator in the lake. They believe that there are at least two alligators present, but so far they have both eluded capture.
Large gator seen with a man’s body in its mouth in Lakeland, Florida