{"id":36252,"date":"2023-09-24T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T01:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=36252"},"modified":"2023-09-24T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T01:22:24","slug":"florida-woman-found-dead-in-the-mouth-of-an-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/09\/24\/florida-woman-found-dead-in-the-mouth-of-an-alligator\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman found dead in the mouth of an alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police have identified the body of a woman who was found in the jaws of an alligator near Tampa Bay, Fla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"618\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/americanalligator-003-1024x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/americanalligator-003-1024x618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/americanalligator-003-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/americanalligator-003-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/americanalligator-003.jpg 1400w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcsoweb.com\/-update--23-123-detectives-conduct-death-investigation-in-unincorporated-largo\">identified&nbsp;<\/a>the woman as 41-year-old Sabrina Peckham. The cause of her death is under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peckham&#8217;s body was found in the mouth of an alligator on Friday afternoon. Law enforcement received a call about the alligator, which was in the water in Largo, Fla., at about 1:50 p.m&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers reported to the area of 134th Avenue North and 121st Street North, where they discovered a 13-foot, 8.5-inch male alligator. The gator was humanely killed and removed from the waterway, according to a press release from the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A dive team&nbsp;recovered&nbsp;Peckham&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police ask that anyone with a concern about an alligator contact the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission&#8217;s nuisance alligator hotline at 866-392-4286.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have identified the body of a woman who was found in the jaws of an alligator near Tampa Bay, Fla. The Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office&nbsp;identified&nbsp;the woman as 41-year-old Sabrina&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[6081],"class_list":["post-36252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-florida-woman-found-dead-in-the-mouth-of-an-alligator"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}