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Crocodile found in box in Melville parking lot

A 3-foot long crocodile was found in a box in Melville Tuesday. Gerald Mosca, supervisor of the Huntington Town Animal Control Center, says he received an anonymous call at around 11 a.m. that a crocodile

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