Alligator helps officers apprehend fleeing suspect
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A 20-year-old man was pulled over early Thursday morning for failing to drive in a single lane. Bryan Zuniga stopped his car, jumped out, kicked through a vinyl fence, and escaped pursuing sheriff’s deputies.
An alligator made sure Zuniga didn’t get far, however. Near a water treatment plant in unincorporated St. Petersburg, the alligator attacked Zuniga, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
Zuniga managed to escape the gator and make his way to a nearby hospital where he was treated for multiple puncture wounds to his face, arm, and armpit area. Authorities were then alerted to the alligator attack.
Once released from the hospital around Thursday at noon, some nine hours after fleeing, Zuniga was transported to the Pinellas County Jail and charged with breaking or injuring fences, fleeing, and eluding a police officer, driving with a suspended license, and resisting an officer without violence.
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