Pretty crazy story out of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Police made a drug bust and found an alligator protecting the dealer's drugs and money. I knew one person growing up who had a pet alligator, and everyone we knew thought he was crazy. So if you know anyone that owns an alligator, there's a good chance they're holdin'.
Jared Gilmour of the Miami Herald reports:
“Some drug dealers use pit bulls or snakes,” Hogan said in a news release. “These drug traffickers kept an alligator in the house.”
“Quite frankly, as far as we can tell with these drug dealers, the alligator may have been the brains of the operation,” Hogan said, according to WGAL.
Mexican drug lord El Chapo was recently sentenced to life behind bars at a notoriously high-security federal prison in the remote Colorado Rockies. But the drug-guarding alligator namesake can expect better treatment in captivity, authorities said: El Chompo was sent to the Brandywine Zoo in Wilmington, Delaware.
“The zoo will house the alligator as an educational animal this summer, after which time it will be taken to the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park … in Florida from which the Brandywine Zoo borrows alligators,” prosecutors said. (via)