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They don't get much weirder than this...

Here's a bit of the back story and what I didn't have time to mention on the 9 o clock news...

31 year old William Johnson recently leaves his home in Tennessee in his grandma's Blue Buick.  He tells her he's going to take a woman to a bus stop.  Somehow they miss the bus, so he offers to drive her to Arkansas.  Once they get to AK, Johnson meets a man who offers him some kind of work in Brazoria, TX.  He shows up here within the last couple of weeks.   He's living out of a camper in an RV park that has no electricity.  Neighbors say he talks non stop about his love of reptiles. 

Last week Brazoria cops find him in a fast food parking lot causing problems.  They cite him for public intoxication and notice his hand is swollen.  No big deal...he just has a FOUR AND A HALF FOOT water moccasin crawling in the back of his car!!!!! 

A couple days later he shows up at the RV park soaking wet.  He invites neighbors to his car.  (Off on a Tangent:  I saw the car in an impound lot today.  I've smelled a lot of bad things over the years, but Grandma's Buick takes the cake.  Here's what I can remember seeing in the car:  an animal's skull, several "Hits of the 50s" CDs, a chainsaw, Irish Spring soap, a roll of toilet paper, a large pink comb, beer, beer and more beer, and a notepad

Oh yeah, and there's a six foot gator unrestrained in the back seat.  He told neighbors he wrangled it with his bare hands and planned to give it to a friend who had a pond.  Then the story gets even better.  He allegedly breaks into the RV of his employer's son.  He pockets a beard trimmer and a Nintendo Wii game controller.  Then he starts rolling out a rather large television set.  He asks the neighbors for help.  The neighbors say, 'Uh, that's not yours.'  Johnson ends up dropping the television set.  Neighbors told me it sounded like a gun shot.  The TV breaks, and Johnson scrams with the gator, beard trimmer and game controller. 

Burglary Suspect Description goes out:  Man with large gator

A couple hours later a DPS Trooper spots the driver of a Buick making weird U Turns and pulls over Johnson.  Trooper believes Johnson saw GREEN when he snagged the gator.  He thinks Johnson would have gotten about $300 for the gator meat over in Louisiana.  Johnson told the Brazoria police chief he was studying to be a herpetologist.   

The gator was released to a wildlife refuge.  Johnson is still in jail, charged with burglary.  Now here's where I become the crazy one.  I gave Johnson my cell phone number to try to get an interview with him. 

Sally Mac