Law enforcement is searching for four missing boaters, three of North Port and one of Port Charlotte, who left for a trip from Venice Saturday morning.
Two men and two women were killed when a single-engine aircraft crashed into the Gulf of Mexico shortly after taking off from an airport in Venice Wednesday night.
Deputies free alligator wedged in Florida storm drain
Watch for those jaws The deputies lifted a concrete slab to free the scaly reptile. (Source: Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office) By Ed Payne | December 22, 2020 at 11:12 AM CST - Updated December 22 at 11:12 AM
VENICE, Fla. (Gray News) – “To protect and to serve”: The police motto doesn’t just apply to people in southwest Florida.
For the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, scaly critters get the same treatment.
Deputies freed an alligator that got stuck in a storm drain this week.
“Thanks to our sector 4 deputies who lifted the concrete slab to help him break free before he returned safely to the lake he typically calls ‘home,’” a post on the department’s Facebook page said.