May 6, 2007 1:22 pm US/Pacific
L.A. Plots Capture Of Elusive Reggie The Alligator
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
Recent of sightings of Reggie the alligator, the elusive Lake Machado creature that had vanished 18 months ago, has city officials plotting a capture.
Several would-be 'gator wranglers failed in attempts to remove the wily Reggie from the murky waters at Harbor Regional Park in 2005, but his reappearance last week reinvigorated efforts to plot a capture.
Councilwoman Janice Hahn said she was working with a representative of late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin and Qantas Airways on a plan that would bring Irwin's crew to Los Angeles within the next week or two.
Before he was killed in an underwater filming accident, Irwin visited Machado Lake in fall 2005 and said he would return when Reggie emerged from hibernation in 2006.
But Reggie didn't reappear last year. The, last Monday, park visitors spotted an alligator that looked to be about 7 feet long swam across the Lake Machado's southern end. There have been several more sightings since.
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