JENSEN BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Deputies and a trapper wrangled a 7-foot gator from a Jensen Beach pool Saturday—one of two reptilian backyard invasions that day.

“I wish they could’ve relocated him, without taking him out,” Clark said. State alligator experts said if this gator had been smaller -- around 6 feet -- he probably would have been relocated.

The woman in Central Florida died after an alligator attack in May. She was bitten in the torso after being knocked into the water from a canoe, FWC says.

The victim was out with her boyfriend on a boat out to the South Fork River in Stuart, according to a Facebook post on Wednesday from the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

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The slippery gator landed on the patio before the deputy grabbed it again, carrying it back to his cruiser. The gator tried to snap, despite its mouth being taped shut, at the deputy, but he once ...