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Meet the trapper who removed a 10-foot alligator from a Jacksonville elementary school

A Jacksonville man is getting the spotlight for wrangling a massive alligator in an elementary school parking lot Sunday night. Mike Dragich, a licensed Florida alligator trapper, alongside Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department and Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office employees, trapped and removed a 10-foot alligator that was roaming the campus of Northwestern Legends Elementary School in the Moncrief community.