Constable Chad Norvell of Fort Bend County, Precinct 1, shared a video viewed nearly 9,000 times that showed the gator strolling in the area, and he told Newsweek that the alligator was about 11-feet long.

He said it took several hours to remove it, but the department is no stranger to receiving calls about alligator sightings because of how close they are to bodies of water.

According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, the American alligator is found in or near water, most often in swamps, rivers, bayous and marshes.

“While typically found in fresh-water, they can tolerate brackish water as well,” the agency said.

Alligators in Texas go through a mostly inactive period from mid-October until early March. Once they become active again, it is the peak time for breeding from early March until late May.

“Periods of extreme weather conditions such as drought or heavy rains can result in an increase in alligator movements,” the department said.

The video that Norvell shared showed the alligator walking beside a tall brick wall, while Michael Schwab posted a video showing the entire removal process, which was viewed more than 145,000 times.

In Schwab’s video, the alligator is seen slowly rolling before officials managed to drag it out to the road with ropes.

Using the ropes, the alligator was hooked up to a tow truck before it was slowly lifted into the air and on the bed of another truck.

Schwab wrote to Newsweek that he heard there was an alligator in the area at around noon.

“I had only seen alligators in the bayou, but never that far on land,” he said. “I jumped in my car and saw a crowd watching off the side of a road, with five to six police officers trying to wrangle the creature. The gator was one of the biggest I have personally seen.”

“We all know that alligators live in the bayous around us, but it’s a bit jarring to know they are starting to walk around in areas where people run or ride their bikes,” he said. “This incident was also a few miles from two elementary schools.”

Norvell said trappers that were licensed by the state helped police remove the alligator from the area.

He also said the alligator performed a death roll, but officials waited for it to tire itself out before dragging it to the street with rope.

It was taken to Gator Country, an alligator park and sanctuary located in Beaumont.

Alligators have been in the news quite a bit this summer.

In late August, an alligator that measured at 10-feet-2-inches was caught in Mississippi, making it the largest recorded in the state, and it may be 100 years old.

About the same time, another alligator was spotted somewhere it didn’t belong—on a Florida middle school campus.

And less than a week ago, a video went viral showing a three-legged alligator taking care of her babies and building them a nest has gone viral on Facebook.