Strange things happen everyday. This time, officers performing a routine
probation check on a northern California man yesterday were shocked to
find that he had some 34 pounds of marijuana in his rented house.
But they were more startled to discover the animal guarding it – a five-foot alligator named Mr Teeth.
Deputies
stopped by Mayar’s two-story rental home in Castro Valley on Wednesday
afternoon to perform a probation compliance check.
Alameda County
Sgt. J.D. Nelson said that while inspecting the house, officers
discovered 34 pounds of dried, processed marijuana in Mayar’s bedroom.
Next
to the pot was a Plexiglas tank containing the alligator. Sgt Nelson
said that the massive reptile was likely used as a deterrent for
would-be marijuana thieves.
The
sheriff’s department called in backup from the Fish and Game
department. The sergeant said that stumbling upon an alligator was
highly unusual. ‘We come across guard dogs like pit bulls quite
frequently, but a guard alligator is very unusual,’ he said. KTVU notes
that the married father-of-two has several dogs, including a pit bull,
in his rental house.
Mayar purchased Mr Teeth in 1996 to ‘commemorate the death of rapper Tupac Shakur,’ Sgt Nelson said.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Assif Mayar, 32, and took his illegal pet to the Oakland Zoo.
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