ESTERO, Fla. — Shoppers at a mall in Southwest Florida watched in awe as crews captured a gigantic 12-foot alligator.
The alligator was found outside the Coconut Point Mall in Estero, Fla.
According to a Facebook post from the Lee County Sheriff's Office, the behemoth alligator weighs 600 pounds.
To put that into perspective, the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission's website said the state record for the length of an American alligator was a 14-foot, 3-and-a-half-inch male pulled from Lake Washington in Brevard County.
"There truly is never a dull moment while on patrol here in Lee County," the sheriff's office posted on their Facebook page.
The sheriff's office said the big gator will be taken to safer waterways.
