Courtney Menzies visited the island today and has this story.

This crocodile is known by Caye Caulker residents as "Calloo", and while he may not look like much, he spans around 14 feet, according to the locals.

"Calloo" and his friend - an 8 foot croc who goes by either Thomas or Louie - have grown up in this lagoon near Pelican Sunset Bar, and over the past decade, they've terrorized their neighbors.

While their normal meals consist of fish entrails and the unfortunate dog that gets too close to the water's edge, last Thursday, Louie got a taste of human flesh after he attacked a man who'd run into the lagoon, fleeing from the cops.

Today, Jim Ramirez - known as "Finnegan", who managed to get away with his arm intact, told us that he ran because he was innocent - but ran right into Louie's jaws.

Jim ""Finnegan" Ramirez, Attacked By Crocodile
"They said at Caye Caulker that I stole a crate of pint, I didn't steal a crate of pint, that's what I was trying to tell the police. Then Liberty Tour, I run through there from the police, because they roughed me up, they pepper sprayed me and all of that, they hit me in my head with the baton and everything. So I just ran from them, run gone through the alleyway but when they came back, I went, run through the alleyway, but I didn't go through Liberty, I ran into the mangrove, when I went into the mangrove, like a canal, a creek, so when I jumped, i dived and went down, when I came up back, a crocodile was beside me. So I was swimming, but he was on this side, so he just grabbed me on my hand. It wasn't a big one, but it grabbed me on my hand. I was trying to haul him out of the water, and it was like that he ripped my hand open by my elbow."

"I couldn't do anything, else, I was already in the water, I couldn't do anything else, I just had to see what he would do because I knew I couldn't escape him, I was already in the water."

Jomarie Lanza:
"So how did you manage to get him off your arm?"

Jim ""Finnegan" Ramirez, Attacked By Crocodile
"I had to haul him. I was already holding onto a branch so I hauled him and hauled him but when he realized I was hauling him, he just ripped my hand, then he let go, and just like that I crawled out of the water and ran to my friend's house."

Eventually the cops did catch up with Ramirez, with the help of the man who lives next to the lagoon, Charles Rubio. Rubio explained that he's been living there since 2011, and has already lost one of his dogs, Coudy, to the crocs.

And according to him, Caillou and Louie aren't alone in those waters.

Charles Rubio, Resident, Caye Caulker
"This lagoon, both crocodiles live there because one of our chihuahuas went missing five years ago and every evening we see the crocodile, we would normally not see them in the day but every time when the sun comes down in the night, we see them coming out. But anyways, he's running from the police and he's going to cross the lagoon, that is when the crocodile attacked him."

"Over ten years, right now we only have two years. To tell you the truth, there was a big dog floating in here, it was a pitbull dog, a brown and white dog, and my kids we normally go on this back porch of mine and we would come out in the nighttime, when we flash our flashlight, there was four of them biting up the dog, and the morning when we woke up, there was no dog."

"From here to the entrance that you came in around the waterside, we have more than 5, 6 crocodiles that patrol from where you came in along the waterside when the tide, like right now, the tide is high so the water comes way to the street, so the crocodile would come to the street, then my kids and us have to walk that street to go to the store and stuff."

And he's had to construct a seawall to keep the crocs off his land and away from his children. He's afraid that the next time it won't just be dogs that the reptiles go after.

Charles Rubio, Resident, Caye Caulker
"The crocodile also came all the way up on the property here, my daughter was on the porch, he was only about ten feet away from my daughter. When she screamed, that is when he went back into the water and into the lagoon. So all we want, anybody who is in charge of catching them, we just want them to be out of here. Because what happened is that the tourists love to come and kayak, they kayak, most tourist thacrot visit Caye Caulker, they love to kayak, they love to paddle, and they normally would come into this lagoon and I would warn them and say hey, please don't go in there. But what worries me is when I'm not home, what will happen. So that is why we want them to come and catch the crocodiles from inside this lagoon."

Rubio now hopes that the some competent authority will intervene before someone actually loses their arm - or even their life. Jim Ramirez knows only too well how close a call it can be.

No charges were pressed against Ramirez, who must now remain in Belize City to continue receiving treatment for his arm.