Connecticut police say a man who placed a three-foot alligator on top of a man in an extortion attempt has been arrested. Officers say 30-year-old Isaias Garcia of Garland, Texas, was held on $250,000 bail after pleading not guilty yesterday to charges including kidnapping and threatening. Authorities say a 21-year-old man called his aunt to say he had been kidnapped and his abductor was demanding $800. The aunt contacted police who told her to demand proof her nephew was okay. Police say she received a photograph of her nephew face down in a bathtub, the open-mouthed gator on top of him. Police traced Garcia’s phone to a Shelton hotel, where he was arrested.