Alligator uses crosswalk at Cypress Point Parkway and Cypress Edge Drive as deputies stop traffic

The gator was at least 5 feet long, a deputy said.

By Jonathan Simmons
| 2:17 p.m. June 6, 2016

Sheriff's Office Corporal Kenny Goncalves and Deputy Jonathon Duenas stopped traffic for the gator at Cypress Point Parkway and Cypress Edge Drive. (Photo by Mark Olson)

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No jay-walking tickets for this gator: Deputies stopped traffic as a 5-plus-foot alligator scampered across the road at Cypress Point Parkway and Cypress Edge Drive in Palm Coast June 6, keeping neatly within the crosswalk.

"He just walked in the crosswalk like it was normal,'' Flagler County Sheriff's Office Corporal Kenny Goncalves said in a Sheriff's Office news release.

Goncalves said the gator was more that 5 feet long, and had been sitting in bushes next to the crosswalk before it crossed the roadway.

Goncalves and Deputy Jonathon Duenas stopped traffic for the gator, and the reptile's crossing took about 30 seconds, according to the news release.

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission trapper was called out, but the gator went into a wooded lot — its natural habitat — before the trapper arrived, so the call was canceled.

Citizens Observer Program member Mark Olson snapped a photo of the critter's crossing.