Group offers reward for info about who put shark in pool

HYPOLUXO, Fla. – An animal rights group is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever dumped a live shark into the swimming pool at a South Florida condo complex.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced the reward Wednesday.

Florida wildlife officers responded to the Mariner’s Cay condominium in Hypoluxo this month after a woman found a 5-foot blacktip shark in the pool.

The woman told officers she saw two young men running from the pool, which is located near the shoreline of the Intracoastal Waterway. The officers removed the shark from the pool and returned it to the ocean, but there’s a good chance the shark later died from exposure to chlorine.

Blacktip sharks are among the most common species in coastal South Florida.