Authorities seized the alligator after learning the "extent at which the owner was seriously endangering the public".
Environmental conservation police officers seized the 750-pound , 11-foot-long alligator on Wednesday from a home in Hamburg, south of Buffalo.
The home's owner built an addition and installed an in-ground swimming pool for the 30-year-old alligator and allowed people, including children, to get into the water with the reptile, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.In this photo provided by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, DEC officers secure an 11-foot alligator.
Tony Cavallaro, who told The Associated Press the alligator, Albert, had been with him since the 1990s, promised to fight for his return."I'm not dangerous. I'm not being unsafe with people," Cavallaro said.
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