3-foot-long creature with scales found during drug bust at Texas home, cops say
A tip from Crime Stoppers led a Texas sheriff’s office to an assortment of drugs and an alligator the length of a toddler in one man’s home.
The Rusk County Sheriff’s Office and the Texas Game Warden investigated a home on Jan. 21 after receiving a tip about drug distribution and illegal possession of an alligator, they announced in a Facebook post.
A search warrant resulted in officers finding a number of controlled substances, including magic mushrooms, PCP, THC edibles and vape cartridges, and 1 pound of marijuana, the post said.
But officers also found a 3-foot-long visitor in the home: a Caiman alligator, according to the post.
They are relocating the slithery animal to a wildlife rescue in Dallas.
Officers also found firearms and money in the home, the post said.
A 44-year-old man was arrested at the home and charged with four controlled substance felony offenses.
Rusk County is about 140 miles southeast of Dallas.
This story was originally published January 25, 2022 at 12:26 PM with the headline "3-foot-long creature with scales found during drug bust at Texas home, cops say."
