Being from Texas, I might be able to help.
First of all, you REALLY want to get rid of him. If he decides to take up residence, he will dig huge tunnels under your foundation. Fortunately, they're the world's easiest critter to trap. You can pick up a trap at Tractor Supply. It's just a cage with a spring-loaded door.
If you look closely at the little pits he digs in your lawn, you can figure out his route. Just lay the cage in the path of his route and throw a little dirt over the entrance. He'll walk right in. They're really dumb.
Then you have to figure out what to do with him. Don't just dump him in the country to become someone else's problem. Take him to a nature preserve or something.
Leprosy? It's mostly an old wives tale. Back in the 30's when starving dust bowl folks were catching them to eat (they called them "Hoover Dogs") there was coincidentally a university study to find another animal on the planet that was susceptible to leprosy. The only other animal they could infect with it was the armadillo. So, naturally, there was a rumor of an escaped lab armadillo with leprosy that made the news and now all armadillos supposedly have leprosy. In fact, they may be disgusting to look at but they're just about the least dangerous wild animal there is, since they have no teeth to speak of, they're nearly immune to rabies, and they don't hang out in sewers or live in colonies.
If all else fails and he won't go into your trap, you can always shoot him with a pellet gun. But you'll have to get up at 3 in the morning to do it.
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