MONTVERDE, Fla. (WFLA)—A person was arrested after being accused of beating an alligator with a golf membership.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fee officers responded to the Lake County Sheriff’s Workplace request for help on July 3, relating to reviews of an alligator taken with no allow.
Throughout an investigation, FWC discovered the alligator and spoke with a number of neighbors and the suspect, Hunter Crumbo, 28.
In response to an arrest report, a neighbor instructed deputies she was requested by one other neighbor tips on how to clear an alligator on July 12. She requested the person the place he acquired an alligator, and he instructed her a child caught it and could not get his fishing lure out of his mouth, so he beat the alligator.
The neighbor additionally mentioned the person had deliberate to eat the alligator however determined to not as a result of it had been sitting for some time.
LCSO deputies took FWC to the aspect yard the place a dismembered alligator was on the comb line.
The proprietor of the house was interviewed, the place she instructed deputies and FWC {that a} man caught, beat, and killed an alligator throughout from her home in a waterway connected to Lake Apopka.
The woman mentioned the person introduced the alligator to the aspect of her yard earlier than one other man with “a lot of knives” dismembered the alligator and left it, the arrest report mentioned.
On July 16, investigators met with Hunter Crumbo, the place he admitted to catching the alligator on July 12 and beating it with a golf membership.
Crumbo was arrested and charged with felony taking and possession of an alligator with no allow.
