FAIRFIELD — A South Jersey woman is heading to municipal court to fight a summons issued when she pulled several turtle traps from a pond next to her home, according to a report on CourierPostOnline.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.