Posted on 09/24/2023 6:07:34 PM PDT by george76
The woman whose lifeless body was found clenched between a 14-foot alligator’s jaws was arrested just two months earlier for trespassing on county wetland property.
Sabrina Peckham, 41, was identified by police Saturday as the victim being dragged by the beast in a canal along a residential street in Largo, a small community just four miles south of Clearwater.
The homeless woman was caught by Pinellas County deputies around 6:30 a.m. on July 14 for trespassing onto county wetland just half a mile from where she was found dead Friday, court records show.
Peckman ignored posted signage warning against unlaw entry.
After pleading no contest to the misdemeanor, she was released from the county on Sept. 8 and was ordered to $500.
It is not clear where the transient woman went in the two weeks before she was discovered dead in the waterway... Records show she had a history of run-ins with police dating back to 2014, including multiple charges for trespassing.
Peckman also had multiple drug and theft convictions lodged against her.
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The area is near the popular Ridgecrest Park, which includes a 5-acre lake known to house alligators.
The gators routinely wander the neighborhood, according to neighbors, but the one killed Friday was one of the biggest some had ever encountered.
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Lol.
I’ll have to use that line.
lol
That would be animal cruelty.
Regards,
Great, now I can’t get the image of Hi-Pants Nadler trying to outrun an Alligator out of my head.
Seems like a good news story to me. Darwin would be proud.
Exactly there are good reasons we removed large predator’s from areas of human populations.
The recent in the past 4 decades that we need to allow them again is utter foolishness.
RIP.
Yep, sleeping with the fishes would be an upgrade over awake with the gators.
Put them in the Rio Grand
The gator may not have killed her. Homeless turn up dead in this area all the time from fentanyl overdose or murder, the gators and vultures don’t need to hunt or kill people to get a free meal, all they need to is wait and follow the smell to the corpse.
That may not be the way she went. Could have died from a health condition or overdose or been killed by someone and the gator just got a corpse.
Just to the north there has been a string of homeless murder victims.
Would not be the first time gators or hogs have been used to get rid of a body.
But, being a drunk going for an ill conceived splash in a canal after 4pm works to attract gators too.
It can be chewy if not prepared properly, but the taste is somewhere between chicken and firm-fleshed fish. Deep fried gator bites are on some restaurant menus where I live, served with various sauces.
That’s very true. Still, I’d prefer there not be so many alligators roaming around Florida. They aren’t endangered anymore.
Alligator being interviewed after incident:
The state has its penalties for trespassing and I have mine.
Gator tail is a delicious food.
Gator is delicious.
Sounds like she was TRYING to become gator chow.
GOD DOES have a sense of humor-———
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