Capturing and decapitating an alligator Parkland, FL (US) Incident Date: Saturday, Oct 16, 2004 County: Broward Local Map: available Disposition: Alleged Alleged: Todd D. Woods

Case ID: 2815 Classification: Mutilation/Torture, Unlawful Trapping/Hunting Animal: reptile View more cases in FL (US) Animal was bound Login to Watch this Case

Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies arrested a suburban Boca Raton man early Saturday on charges he captured and decapitated a 4-foot-long alligator.

Todd D. Woods, 34, was charged with possessing and killing wildlife. According to a report, a witness called authorities after seeing Woods and another man capture the gator at 12:15 a.m. on Loxahatchee Road, load it onto a red pickup and cut off its head.

Deputies went to Woods' home after checking the license tag number the witness gave them.

When deputies arrived, they searched the truck and found a handsaw, along with the decapitated gator and its head in a nearby garbage bag with silver duct tape around its snout.

A law enforcement officer confiscated the gator's remains.

Woods told deputies he and another man caught the alligator and planned to eat it, the report said.

Federal regulators consider alligators a threatened species.

Woods was released from jail on a $3,000 bond.

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