Overview
- Joseph Kenney of Joe’s Crazzy Critters said he located the alligator near the Esplanade and captured it safely, adding that it is being kept warm pending guidance on next steps.
- MassWildlife had been coordinating with Boston Animal Control and the Massachusetts Environmental Police to find and capture the non‑native reptile.
- Trevor Rochelle first filmed the small alligator over the weekend in an Esplanade lagoon, where it hissed and slipped back into the water after he nudged it with a stick.
- Runner Whitney Lieberman reported a separate sighting early Tuesday near the Hatch Memorial Shell, reinforcing accounts that the animal lingered in the same lagoons over consecutive days.
- Officials note that alligators are illegal to own in Massachusetts and unlikely to survive the cold; a four‑foot alligator was previously removed from the Charles River in 2010.