GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan State Police say they found a surprise guest during a drug bust this week: an alligator. The agency’s Metro Narcotics Enforcement Team executed a search warrant Tuesday at a home in Detroit’s Downriver region. They expected to find drugs, but not the reptile. It was turned over to a local animal shelter.

ECORSE, MI -- Law enforcement executing a search warrant Tuesday encountered a different type of scale than what they expected to as an alligator was found living at the home. Michigan State Police didn’t provide much information regarding the alligator other than to say it was turned over to a local animal shelter.

When a Michigan State Police narcotics team searched an Ecorse home for drugs, they found nearly 1,000 grams of various drugs, nine firearms ... and an alligator named Longtooth. The state law enforcement agency said it searched the home on Tuesday.

Michigan State Police reported an unusual find this week during a search at an Ecorse home: an alligator. MSP had been executing a search warrant Tuesday with a downriver SWAT team at a home occupied by residents officials were investigating on a drug case.

Officials in Michigan uncovered something unusual during the raid of a home on Tuesday. The Michigan State Police seized a number of things from a cache of illegal items, including guns and drugs. The weirdest thing they found was an alligator.