OAN’s Brooke Mallory
4:22 PM – Monday, September 25, 2023
A woman who was recently found dead with her corpse clasped in a 13-foot alligator’s jaws had been detained previously for trespassing on county wetland property.
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On Saturday, the woman’s body was pulled out of the reptile, who was in a canal on a residential street in Largo, Florida, a tiny town four miles south of Clearwater. She was identified by authorities as 41-year-old Sabrina Peckham.
According to court documents, the homeless woman was previously apprehended by Pinellas County deputies on July 14th for trespassing on a county marsh only half a mile from where she was discovered dead on Friday.
After her previous legal troubles, Peckham was eventually freed by the county on September 8th and was fined $500 after entering a plea of no…