RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A wayward seal has been captured after an early morning foray through a Long Island town. Police in Southampton say they received a call at approximately 6:30 a.m. Sunday from a person who saw the roving mammal, later identified as a phocid, or earless seal, in the parking lot of a beverage store about 500 feet from the Peconic River. When officers arrived, the seal fled southwest toward a motel but eventually was corralled and taken into custody. The seal was handed over to the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, where it is being evaluated.
Cops corral slippery seal on jaunt through East End town
