South Jersey woman fights turtle trap law

Upset that the turtle traps placed by New Jersey Fish and Wildlife were trapping and drowning not nuisance Snapping Turtles but other species, primarily Painted Turtles, Audra Capps tried to help. That's where she got in trouble. From NJ.com:

While the traps were apparently put in place to capture snapping turtles, Audra Capps contends they were poorly assembled and instead were trapping and drowning another species of the aquatic reptiles — painted turtles, the report said. A conservation officer with the New Jersey's Division of Fish and Wildlife caught Capps and a friend pulling out the traps, the report said. Both were issued four summonses each but Capps hopes to convince the judge she was just acting as a Good Samaritan looking out for helpless wildlife.

Capp has quite a bit of public support behind her. To read the full article, click here.