A Florida man was recently captured on video subduing an alligator with his bare hands on a busy Jacksonville street.

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and Fox35 in Orlando, Mike Dragich, a former Marine and an amateur MMA fighter who is also a licensed alligator trapper, was called in to wrangle the 8-foot gator, which was in an area near a local school.

Dragich told the TV station he was attending a hockey game with his family when he received the call from the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), which had in turn been contacted by the sheriff’s office.

In the video, the gator can be seen wriggling its way across the street as Jacksonville deputies manage the crowd and traffic. Dragich — in shorts, a sleeveless shirt, and no shoes — grabs the gator by its tail before jumping on its back and pressing its upper jaw down to close its mouth.

“He was running towards the cops, and a crowd of people, and everybody was screaming,” Dragich told Fox35.

Although edited out of the video, the gator’s mouth is wrapped with tape before Dragich picks it up and carries it off — but not before showing it off to some of the bystanders who witnessed the event.

The alligator was designated a nuisance gator and Dragich was given permission to harvest the reptile. Afterwards, he went back to the hockey game, he said.

“When it comes to the alligator wrestling, we would much rather leave this one to the professionals,” the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office posted to its Facebook page. “Thank your for your assistance in this Mike Dragich!”

Last year, Dragich had another incident in which he wrangled a larger gator, estimated at about 10 feet, which had made its way into the parking lot of a Jacksonville school.