According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and Fox35 in Orlando, Mike Dragich, a former Marine and an amateur MMA fighter who is also a licensed alligator trapper, was called in to wrangle the 8-foot gator, which was in an area near a local school.

Florida MMA fighter and licensed alligator trapper Mike Dragich describes wrangling the 8-foot alligator with his bare hands on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

He wrangled the 8-foot gator in true Florida style with his bare hands. “You have military uniforms, police uniforms, medical scrubs and sports uniforms … and then you have a pair of denim shorts and a plaid shirt,

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He caught the eight-foot gator in true Florida man style, with his bare hands and bare feet. Dragich has gained notoriety on social media for past gator removals including one he wrestled from a Jacksonville school campus.