The Courier Post: Woman charged with killing turtles in South Jersey
The Division of Fish and Wildlife attempted to capture snapping turtles with
traps but wound up catching another species of the reptile.
Photo credit: The Star-Ledger
If freeing drowning turtles from traps is wrong, then Audra Capps doesn't want to be right. But Capps is hoping she and her lawyer can make a judge see her as a Samaritan rather than a vandal. Capps is headed soon to Municipal Court to defend herself against charges she broke state laws by pulling turtle traps from a pond next to her home in August. The New Jersey Bar Association is looking into the case, according to her lawyer.
"They were filled with dead and dying painted turtles," Capp said. "Myself and one of my friends, Mike Del Collo, were letting them go, and the Fish and Wildlife people came and told us we couldn't."
"They were filled with dead and dying painted turtles," Capp said. "Myself and one of my friends, Mike Del Collo, were letting them go, and the Fish and Wildlife people came and told us we couldn't."
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 11/2/2010 6:00 AM 
Categories: Reptiles
Tags: snapping turtles painted turtles south jersey turtle traps fish and wildlife
Categories: Reptiles
Tags: snapping turtles painted turtles south jersey turtle traps fish and wildlife
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