PHOTO: Large iguana seen roaming Arkansas town; owner sought after lassoing fails

An iguana — a tan, scaly lizard with a striped tail — was discovered Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in the 900 block of North Davis Street in Pea Ridge.
An iguana — a tan, scaly lizard with a striped tail — was discovered Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in the 900 block of North Davis Street in Pea Ridge.

The owner of a free-roaming iguana is sought after the large lizard was seen making its way through a Northwest Arkansas town earlier this week.

An officer with the Pea Ridge Police Department spotted the animal Wednesday in a residential area of the town of nearly 5,120 residents.

The iguana — a tan, scaly lizard with a striped tail — was also seen in the 900 block of North Davis Street that afternoon, according to a statement posted to the agency’s Facebook page.

“We tried lassoing it but [the lizard] ran into the bushes,” the post reads in part.

Police said the reptile may still be in trumpet vine plants along North Davis Street.

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