Authorities in Aransas Pass had to get hands-on with an alligator early Thursday morning.
According to a post on the Aransas Pass Police Department’s Facebook page, the eight-foot gator was spotted by a customer in the parking lot of a Walmart.
Police and Texas Parks and Wildlife were called to wrangle the beast. Officers helped a game warden wrestle the alligator into submission.
No one was injured.
Texas Parks and Wildlife took the gator into custody.