FROSTPROOF, Fla. — School officials gave deputies a hand after a gator was found at a Polk County school Thursday.
Deputies were called to Frostproof Middle-Senior High School Thursday to remove the gator.
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As officials were waiting for a trapper to arrive, the school’s principal and athletic director helped deputies to wrangle the reptile.
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No students were at the school at the time and the gator was removed without injury, deputies said.