CHICAGO _ Chicago police discovered an alligator while searching a Northwest Side house Monday night, at least the third time one of the exotic animals was scooped up by the city's animal control this summer.
About 9:40 p.m., officers executed a search warrant at a house in the 4000 block of North Troy in the Albany Park neighborhood, according to Chicago police.
They confiscated guns, narcotics and a three-foot alligator, which they handed off to Chicago's Animal Care and Control unit, police said.
No one was arrested as of early Tuesday, though the incident remained under investigation.
Last month, an alligator that became known as "Chance the Snapper" was captured from the Humboldt Park Lagoon by Florida alligator trapper Frank Robb.
Weeks after, a man went viral after holding a small alligator in a Facebook Live video in front of the lagoon, but his account of snatching the creature from the waters was disputed by police.
