OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City animal control officer says she was skeptical when a man called to report a 4-foot-long carp in a drainage ditch.

But Jamie Schmidt, a school resource officer with the Olathe, Kansas, Police Department, soon found herself wrapping up the 3 1/2-foot-long, 60-pound dead fish in trash bags and using a lift to get it into her truck.

The Kansas City Star reports the unidentified man was on a walk Friday when he found the carp in a ditch near an elementary school. Schmidt, who is filling in as animal control officer while the regular one is on maternity leave, thinks it came from a nearby lake after heavy rains.

Schmidt says it was easier to haul the fish away because it was already dead.