
"In the video you can see the defendant trying to fight off the crocodile and he managed to get away," the report said. But when he sits on the bank of the pool, the "crocodile locks onto his left foot." The arrest report said security cameras show a 9-foot-long crocodile lunging at the man, who escapes to the edge of the pool.

"In our 125-year history, this is the first time anyone has tried to go swimming with the crocodiles." "He jumped off a 5- to 6-foot structure into about 2 feet of water, then climbed up on the 20-foot structure later, which we know from the blood trail," Brueggen said. Monday and damaged part of its snack bar, then went into the recently opened “Oasis on the Nile” exhibit, Alligator Farm Director John Brueggen said. The man, identified by police as Brandon Keith Hatfield, got into the park about 7:45 p.m. And when the vandalism call came in, we put two and two together." When they made contact with him, he claimed he had been bitten by an alligator. took a jump into a pond infested with big crocodiles," Aiple said. Then came a call from the Alligator Farm reporting some serious vandalism, she said. The first came at 6:50 a.m., a neighbor saying a suspicious person was crawling in a Holly Lane backyard across Anastasia Boulevard from the 125-year-old park, clad only in underwear, said police spokeswoman Cecilia Aiple. Then came the calls to police that solved the mystery, and led to the arrest of a 23-year-old Green Cove Springs man charged with burglary and criminal mischief, according to the St. No victim was found among the scaly enclosure's inhabitants, just a bloody trail to the top of a nearby 20-foot-tall structure.


Augustine's Alligator Farm Zoological Park. The evidence was scary - two rubber Croc shoes and shorts floating in the water Tuesday inside the Nile Crocodile enclosure at St.
