CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (WSVN) —There was a troubling trap in Central Florida after, authorities said, an elderly man who had no business tying up a gator went after the reptile.
Seventy-one-year-old Robert Colin accused of an illegal reptile roundup after the alligator was caught in a lasso in a canal.
The gator was seen with a rope around its mouth and tethered to a pole in Cape Canaveral.
“I decided, ‘Well, maybe I can catch it and keep it here, because they can’t monitor it 24 hours, then I’ll help them out,’” said Colin.
According to the the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, Colin was the man responsible.
It all happened Wednesday morning while, Colin said, he was trying to protect turtles in the canal.
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