Alligator captured on road in Townsend, Mass.

(AP Photo/Townsend Police Department)

A six-foot long alligator was captured today by the state Environmental Police, who discovered the beast in the middle of a road with its snout taped shut. The alligator, found 40 miles northwest of Boston in Townsend, Mass., was taken to a reptile expert and will eventually go to Florida.

A driver spotted the animal lying in Old City Road at about 11:30 a.m., according to the Associated Press. The alligator had a broken tooth that Townsend Police Chief Erving Marshall Jr. said may have been from the reptile trying to remove the tape around its snout.

It is unclear how the animal got to Townsend. Police may prosecute the alligator’s owners if they can be located, Marshall said.

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