12-foot, 800-pound alligator caught at Texas shopping center
SUGAR LAND, Texas -- Authorities captured a rather large alligator behind a Sugar Land shopping center Saturday morning, reports CBS affiliate KHOU in Houston.
Alligator trapper Christy Krobroth told KTRK the creature probably just got lost and wandered into the parking lot. A forklift was required to remove it.
Whitney Morrow, owner of Whitney Morrow Hairdressing, was one of a few business owners who posted a photo to Facebook of the gator behind her salon.
Another business owner in the shopping center said on Facebook the animal was 50 years old, weighed 800 pounds, was 12 feet long and blind in one eye.
Police helped haul the gator off the property and relocate it to Brazos Bend State Park.