
CAPE CORAL, Fla.- A dead gator was pulled from a local drain.
Mary Oliver posted this photo to our WINK News Facebook page.
You can see firefighters pulling the gator out of the storm drain with a crane. The gator was found near Santa Barbara Boulevard and Southwest 31st Street.
Oliver says the gator was nearly 10-feet long.
No word on how the animal became stuck.
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