Dolphin tangled in net freed by police after being spotted by good Samaritans in North Bay Village

A helpless dolphin that got tangled in a net was rescued by police thanks to some help from quick thinking residents in North Bay Village. Speaking with 7News in Spanish, Ahmed Raul Perez said his wife spotted the sea creature from the window of their apartment, Wednesday afternoon. The couple being the animal lovers they are, they noticed the dolphin didn t appear to be behaving normally and decided to take a closer look. Perez used a drone to fly closer, which is how they saw the creature would need a helping hand. He wasn t swimming right. When I looked closer, I saw he had something on his tail, Perez said in Spanish. His tail was underwater and his head was bobbing above the water. That s when the couple called 911. A closer look at the footage of the dolphin appears to show its tail ensnared in a net, which appeared to be giving it a lot of trouble just to stay afloat. Perez believes it might ve ended tragically if somebody didn t intervene soon. He w