“It was like a SWAT team. Nine DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs, and they were all armed to the teeth. Incredibly, they were gunning for a 2-week-old baby fawn. “Giggles” had been brought to the no-kill animal shelter by a local family who found her and worried she had been abandoned by her mother. The shelter claims plans were already in place to transfer the deer to a licensed wildlife refuge when the Department of Natural Resources got wind of it and made plans to seize the “illegal” animal, citing state law that forbids the possession of wildlife without a state-issued permit. The warden sprang into action, taking aerial photos of the barn to confirm the deer’s presence and then drafting an affidavit for the search warrant. Agents began the raid by detaining shelter workers and then setting out in search of the fawn. “I was thinking in my mind they were going to take the deer and take it to a wildlife shelter, and here they come carrying the baby deer over their shoulder. She was in a body bag.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:45:01 +0000
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