{"id":8801,"date":"2015-07-01T13:41:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=8801"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:18:08","slug":"nrp-seizes-another-alligator-charges-prince-georges-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/07\/01\/nrp-seizes-another-alligator-charges-prince-georges-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"NRP Seizes Another Alligator, Charges Prince George&#8217;s Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8802\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Suitland-gator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8802\" class=\"wp-image-8802 \" src=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Suitland-gator-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"Suitland gator\" width=\"432\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Suitland-gator-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Suitland-gator-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suitland gator<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the second time in less than two weeks, Maryland Natural Resources Police officers seized an illegally owned alligator, this time in Prince George\u2019s County.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tyjuan Brian Hopkins, 41, of Suitland was charged Sunday with possessing a dangerous animal. After being issued a citation, he was held for an outstanding arrest warrant on an unrelated matter and turned over to the Prince George\u2019s County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>NRP received a complaint about an alligator being kept as a pet in an apartment. Officers visited the residence to interview Hopkins but he wasn\u2019t home. After obtaining a search warrant, officers were able to seize the two-foot alligator, which was in an aquarium in the living room.<\/p>\n<p>The alligator was taken to the Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo in Frederick County.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland criminal law prohibits citizens from importing, selling, trading, bartering, possession, breeding or exchanging live wild animals, including alligators, caimans and crocodiles.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins is due in Prince George\u2019s District Court on Sept. 16. If found guilty, he could be fined as much as $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>On June 19, an Edgewood man was charged with keeping a dangerous animal after officers waded into a pond behind his home to seize a 3-foot alligator and take it to the Catoctin facility. \u00a0Charles David Dorsey, 37, is scheduled to appear in Harford District Court on Aug. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in less than two weeks, Maryland Natural Resources Police officers seized an illegally owned alligator, this time in Prince George\u2019s County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-nrp-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8803,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions\/8803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}