Huge 400-pound alligator captured in U.S. N. Carolina on "suspicion of being dinosaur"


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Wednesday, 04 Jun 2025

NEW YORK, June 3 (Xinhua) -- "Pepe the Gator," weighing almost 400 pounds and measuring 10 feet in length, was caught loitering off the pavement in Jacksonville, North Carolina, with witnesses saying that "he was just chilling and snapping (and) clearly ignoring the 'no loitering or lounging on roadways' sign," Onslow County Sheriff's Office said in a post on Facebook on Tuesday.

The prehistoric perp "has been cited for Suspicion of Being a Dinosaur without Proper Papers, Public Loitering with Intent to Sunbathe, and Obstructing Traffic," the sheriff's office said.

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