“The Payson Police Department would also like to take this opportunity to encourage the public not to use methamphetamine or you too may find yourself illegally purchasing a wild owl, for $100, in the middle of the night, from strangers, at a local gas station,” the department posted on social media.
He protected the eagle with his cruiser while he called the Wisconsin DNR for assistance and escorted the eagle to safety as it crossed the road and bedded down in tall grass.
When officers arrived they found a 28-year-old man lying on the floor with the mid-section of a snake wrapped around his neck.
Charleston police have had three Daniel Island alligator encounters in May.
The owl named "Steve" by the responding officers—Officer Hargett and Officer Eubanks—flew into the home through an open garage door.
The swan was standing on the shoulder of I-696. The trooper was able to put the animal into a bag and brought it to the MSP post.
Officers said the man bought the couch days earlier, adding that he believed the snake was hiding in the couch since it was moved inside his home.
The alligator attempted entry into the community pool area. When officers arrived, the alligator had broken through porch lattice at the reservation office, the department said on Facebook.
A Palm Bay, FL, police officer trying to take a "selfie" was photobombed by an alligator crawling out of a storm drain.
The suspect said he jumped a fence to an alligator enclosure and stole the gator, according to an arrest report. Officers said when they asked the man what he was doing when he was throwing the alligator in the air, he advised he was "teaching it a lesson."
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