Texas officials confiscate large alligator-like reptile found in home - mySA

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Texas officials have confiscated a large alligator-related reptile found in a home. The crocodilian, believed to be a Caiman, was approximately three feet in length. 

Texas officials have confiscated a large alligator-related reptile found in a home. The crocodilian, believed to be a Caiman, was approximately three feet in length. 

Rusk County Sheriff's Office

On January 21, the Rusk County Sheriff's Office and Texas Game Wardens seized drugs and a large alligator-related reptile from an East Texas home. The crocodilian, believed to be a caiman, was approximately 3 feet in length, according to a Facebook post from the sheriff's office. 

Along with the reptile, officials found what they believed to be marijuana, a quarter pound of magic mushrooms, suspected THC edibles, angel dust (PCP), and 76 THC vape cartridges (Delta 9). They also said they seized guns and U.S. currency. Officials got a search warrant of the house after receiving a Crime Stoppers Tip. 

Jason Best, 44, from Kilgore near Longview, has been charged with a total of four controlled substance felony offenses. Best's bond was set for a total of $118,500.

Rusk County officials and the City of Kilgore Animal Control officials have made arrangements to have the caiman relocated to Nature's Edge, a wildlife rescue located in Dallas. Caimans, also spelled cayman, are related to alligators and usually placed with them in the family Alligatoridae, according to Britannica. 

Caimans, like all other members of the order Crocodilia, are amphibious carnivores. They live along the edges of rivers and other bodies of water, and they reproduce by means of hard-shelled eggs laid in nests built and guarded by the female.

The reptiles are usually dull browns, grays, or greens to help keep them camouflaged while they are hunting, according to the Animal Network. All of the caiman species have a bony ridge that extends from the eyes, down the snout.

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