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‘I lawfully purchased an American alligator’: Man sues state agency for ‘unfair’ seizure of his 750-pound reptilian friend after decades of regulatory compliance
It’s not easy being green amid the Empire State’s bogs of red tape. Now, an upstate New York man is suing environmental regulators to get his gargantuan reptile back. Tony Cavallaro, 64, hails from the Erie County town of Hamburg, a suburb of Buffalo. And, for the past 30-plus years, Cavallaro’s residence was home to a giant alligator as well.
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