{"id":1015988,"date":"2021-05-19T17:59:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T22:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1015988"},"modified":"2021-05-20T17:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:59:03","slug":"alligator-found-in-henderson-restaurant-drive-thru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1015988","title":{"rendered":"Alligator found in Henderson restaurant drive-thru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/police-9-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1015994\" \/>HENDERSON &#8212; An 8 1\/2-foot alligator was found in the drive-thru of Jucy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taco just in front of Willow Lake in Henderson. Brian Bathke, the support services captain with the Henderson Police Department, said that a call came in early Wednesday morning, likely from a customer. Officials set up a rough perimeter around the area to keep people back, but Bathke said roughly 20-25 people gathered around to film the animal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capture. He said in an interview with our news partner KETK that it was a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153very exciting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d morning and his first gator call in 25 years.<!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The alligator will be taken to an undisclosed location, which is standard procedure. If anyone in East Texas spots an alligator in a residential area, Bathke said there is nothing wrong with calling 911. He also suggested calling for a game warden or animal control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON &#8212; An 8 1\/2-foot alligator was found in the drive-thru of Jucy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taco just in front of Willow Lake in Henderson. Brian Bathke, the support services captain with the Henderson Police Department, said that a call came in early Wednesday morning, likely from a customer. Officials set up a rough perimeter around the area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1015988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alligator found in Henderson restaurant drive-thru<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1016001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/police-9-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Alligator found in Henderson restaurant drive-thru","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 18:35:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/police-9-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Alligator found in Henderson restaurant drive-thru","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015999,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015988\/revisions\/1015999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}