By Associated Press - Thursday, September 11, 2014

BOLING SPRING LAKES, N.C. (AP) - Police in the community of Boiling Spring Lakes southwest of Wilmington are looking for the person who killed an alligator.

In a release to local media outlets, police say it appears someone used a baited line to catch the alligator and then killed it.

The 9-foot gator was found in a ditch near a dam Wednesday.



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