Story highlights Two men charged with wildlife harassment

Pictures showed then forcing beer into alligator

(CNN) Two South Carolina men each face a harassment charge after pictures surfaced on social media showing them pouring beer down the throat of an alligator, authorities said.

Joseph Andrew Floyd Jr., 20, and Zachary Lloyd Brown, 21, both of Ridgeland, are accused of harassing wildlife, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said in a news release

The incident took place on Wednesday in Jasper County, located in the coastal region in the southernmost part of the state.

The men admitted to investigators that they picked up the juvenile alligator after they saw it crossing a road, forced beer down its throat and watched it swim away in a nearby pond, according to the release.

Pictures posted on social media alerted officials the next day.

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