Drone Video Shows Florida Cops Expertly Lasso and Wrestle 6-Foot Alligator: ‘Not Our First Call Like This’

Sarah Rumpf Sep 26th, 2025, 11:49 am

Screenshot via Lake County Sheriff’s Office on YouTube.

Deputies with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) had a wild encounter wrangling a 6-foot alligator in a local resident’s yard, and luckily for the internet, it was captured on drone and body cam video.

According to a report by Orlando Weekly , the deputies were responding to a call from a woman in Clermont (about 20 miles west of Orlando) who said there was a large alligator on her front porch.

When the cops arrived on scene, the alligator darted around to the side of the house, headbutted a fence gate, and tried to flee to the backyard. The deputies pursued the wily reptile and

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