Syracuse.com - Niagara County man captures baby alligator in creek by his home

[HuntingNY-News]

The gator was probably someone's pet that was released in the creek.

WILSON, N.Y. (AP) — When Ken Champion's friend sent him a picture of an alligator in a creek near his western New York home, he had to check it out for himself.

After poking around the wooded banks of the creek in the Niagara County town of Wilson for several hours on Sunday, Champion found the elusive gator.

But he had nothing with him to corral the 2- to 3-foot-long reptile.

Champion tells YNN cable television news in Buffalo that his cousin eventually showed up with a net and they managed to tape the gator's mouth shut.

Champion says he believes the gator was someone's pet that was released in the creek.

He says he'll turn the alligator over to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Click here to read more and see a video of the critter on the buffalo.ynn.com Web site.

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