Alligator Spotted in New Jersey Lake Still at Large After a Week of Eluding Authorities
Large alligator lounges in the sun along a lagoon in South Carolina.Photo:Getty Getty A New Jersey lake became the unlikely home of analligator, sparking a police investigation and search for the elusive reptile. On Aug. 23, police officers from the Middlesex Borough Police Department were dispatched to Victor Crowell Park in Middlesex, New Jersey, to capture the alligator after it was spotted in the park. The officers planned to remove “the potentially dangerous species of non-indigenous reptile, which is capable of inflicting serious or fatal injuries,“according to a Facebook post from the police department, but were unable to apprehend the animal....