A creature typically found in Florida and other states much further south was seized from a home in Bellevue by state game wardens at the end of September, according to a social media post from Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement.
The post says the Bellevue-Dayton Fire Department responded to a call at a home in Bellevue and contacted wardens to alert them to an alligator they spotted in the basement.
Wardens executed a search warrant at the home, where they found the 3-foot-long alligator, and an investigation was launched.
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife said the resident of the home told them the alligator was purchased at a reptile show in Indiana earlier in the year.
However, the resident “failed to check if it was legal to possess in Kentucky.”
Wardens said charges are still pending; the social media post did not identify the owner of the alligator or where in Bellevue the animal was found.
