According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, an investigator received a call from a local nuisance-alligator trapper, saying eight 4- to 6-foot alligators had been captured over four days.
The alligators were found in a housing development, but the investigator found a gator farmer nearby.
According to an FWC statement, "the alligator farmer was surprised to learn that of his 18 alligators, only one remained in the enclosure."
They had escaped by digging a hole under a fence.
The farmer, who had a license for the farm but now has surrendered it, was cited for maintaining wildlife in an unsafe/unsanitary condition. He had 20 animals, two of which died.
Eight alligators are still missing; the recaptured alligators have been sent to permitted farms.
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