 Result, the wholesale price of chocolate's key ingredient, which has more than doubled since the start of the year, is likely to shoot even higher. Vicki Barker, CBS News, London. An upstate New York man whose 750-pound alligator was seized from a suburban Buffalo home in March is suing the State Department of Environmental Conservation to get him back. Tony Cavallaro says the agency was wrong not to renew the license for the pet he looked after for more than 30 years. Conservation officers say the license expired in 2021.