article_snippet.sent: After finding an injured eight-inch alligator being attacked by a bird, Kevin Gill, from Naples, FloridaFlorida, told WBBH that WBBH thought WBBH could care for the reptile while learning about gators.
article_snippet.sent: But when Collier County deputies were serving a search warrant on the family's home for an unrelated issue, Collier County deputies came across the baby gator - and told Gill the baby was illegal.
article_snippet.sent: Kevin Gill, pictured in a mug shot, left, was arrested after deputies found he had a small alligator inside he Florida home.
article_snippet.sent: he had found the injured gator and given the injured gator to he , right, to nurse back to health . '
article_snippet.sent: I didn't think an alligator was a big deal since there's millions of them and them took them off the endangered species list.'
article_snippet.sent: But after Collier County deputies found the gator, which the family kept in a tank, the family took Gill to jail.
article_snippet.sent: Home: an alligator was kept in this tank in the family's Naples home after they found an alligator outside .
article_snippet.sent: Stunned: Gill said Gill never knew keeping an alligator - especially such a small one - was illegal .
highlights_snippet.sent: Kevin Gill, 45, found an injured gator and took an injured gator to his home in Naples, Florida for his son to nurse back to health .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But when officers were serving a search warrant on the family's home for an unrelated issue, officers found an injured gator and arrested Gill .
  