Tampa, FL -- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) investigators arrested a Tampa man June 17 after receiving a complaint about photos that had been posted on Facebook.
According to the FWC, the complaint said that a deer and alligator had been freshly killed and that the suspected hunter, 21-year-old Kyle Edwards, was also in the photos.
Edwards told an FWC investigator on June 10 he and a friend went to a private property north of Otter Creek in Levy County to camp and shoot a new AK-47 he had recently purchased at a Tampa gun show.
The two men saw an alligator on the dirt road leading to the camp, and Edwards shot and killed it. He explained they cleaned it, ate some of the meat and later gave the rest of the alligator meat to friends. The carcass was disposed of on a dump pile near the camp.