'World's Slowest Escape': Officer Helps Wandering Tortoise Return Home in Littleton

Nearly 100-pound tortoise escapes JeffCo home with 'absolutely no sense of urgency'

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office shared video and a funny post after a tortoise named Lard escaped a yard last month.

100-pound Colorado tortoise flees home in ‘world’s slowest escape’

A Sulcata tortoise named Lard attempted the "world's slowest escape" south of Denver in August, making a break from his Littleton home.

Tortoise rescued by Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, neighbors after escaping yard

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) -- The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO) says it helped save a tortoise that had run away from home back in August. According to officials, an animal control officer was sent to a report of a wandering tortoise in Littleton on August 31. There, they encountered Lard, a Sulcata tortoise weighing

'World's slowest escape': Officer helps wandering tortoise return home in Littleton

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on Friday shared body-camera footage of a daring escape by a suspect from late August, and it required some bystander assistance.

Littleton Tortoise Lard's 100-Pound Escape in Jefferson County

A 100-pound sulcata tortoise named Lard escaped his Littleton yard, and Jefferson County deputies needed help carrying him home.