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November 22nd, 2009 | 
Author: I then spoke to a Verna Gengler, she told me she never heard from me, and didn’t know who I was, but yet I have paperwork from her with her signature on it. I shared this information with her and she stated that she really was not involved with this thing anyway. Later on that day Lisa Trifelli called me up about 3:45 pm , said she heard that I spoke to Larry Herrighty around 10am that morning, and told me that I must now have my physical permit. She said she would like to come up and give it to me. I agreed to it, and then asked her if this was a bust. She said,” no, no, no I wouldn’t do that to you. I just want to come up and inspect your facility, and give you your permit.”
Well, they had already inspected the facility because I had showed it to them, but I agreed anyway. I told them to give me a call to make sure I was there, because I wasn’t living in the house. I was fixing the house up at the time. I had been warned by another rehabilitator not to trust them. Come Friday outright lies were not acceptable. I had a copy of all of the paperwork I had sent to their office. The Fish & Game came to my house with the police and the health department. They asked if I was William Sleight, and I said yes and asked what was going on. I asked if this was a bust, and stated to Lisa Trifelli that she said she was not going to do this. She said,” I lied”. She said that law enforcement was allowed to do that. Being a former police officer I knew that there was something called deception, but outright lies were not acceptable. I had a copy of all the paperwork I had sent to their office.
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I then gave the conservation officers my business card from the SPCA, and then they left. This happened on a Friday. On Monday I phoned the F&G office I spoke to a Larry Herrighty. I asked if there was a problem, and Larry said yes there was. He said that I did not return the questionnaire. The questionnaire was in the packet I received and it was only given to rehabilitators. The purpose was to gather information from wildlife rehabilitators so that the state could put together a standardized manual of care, this was asking for input for all of the rehabilitators. I had sent back that information. NJ F&G claimed that they did not get it. Then Herrighty said I was in trouble because I did not have my permit. I told them that I knew they only processed them in March or May, but so long as a rehabilitator having the physical paperwork in hand you were covered, so physically having the permit in your possession was not necessary. Then he said, “Well, there is a conflict of interest.” He said,” you’re with the SPCA.” I asked what was the conflict of interest? Herrighty said, “your statutes and ours.” So I said you mean that you kill them and I save them. Herrighty then said,” Had we known that you were with the SPCA we would have never accepted you in the program and given you a permit.” This clarified to me that I was accepted and issued a permit. There was no question or grey area about it. I assumed that the way they found out I was with the SPCA is because I handed my card to the conservation officers a couple of days before that. I did not realize at the time that they had remembered I was the officer who prosecuted the two police officers who beat the deer to death two years earlier.
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I was working with NJ State SPCA as a Law Enforcement Officer in 1992 two Freehold Twp police officers were dispatched to a deer that was hit on the road on t. 537 in Freehold Twp on a Bell Lab property. It was about a quarter of a mile from the road hit by a delivery truck about 4 am. The deer had a broken back from the accident. The police officers took out a bolt cutter and they beat the deer to death. I was called in on the case and prosecuted the police officers on needlessly beating and torturing an animal. I was called by my office to call NJ Fish & Game about the incident. I spoke to a Marty McQue he said that they would appreciate it if I dropped the charges. I refused to drop the charges, I did not work for NJ Fish, Game and Wildlife, I worked for the State SPCA and that these two officers were guilty and I was going to prosecute them. That was the last I heard about it.
About two years later in 1993 I applied to NJ Fish, Game & Wildlife for my rehabilitator’s permit I sent them the application, and then did not receive any notice from them. In March of 1993 I phoned them to ask them what my status was, NJ F&G said that they never received my application, they did not know who I was, nor ever heard of me before. I asked them to send me the application again, they did. I filled it out and sent it back July 1994. I received a packet with all the rules and regulations, and a list of wildlife rehabilitators in the State, and they sent me my $7.00 check back with an explanation that they did not charge for the license, it is free. The check I sent them was by mistake, it was only needed if holding a captive pet, not wildlife rehabilitation. In August of 1994 two NJ Conservation Officers came to my house one was named Lisa Trifelli, they asked if I was William Sleight, and I said I was. The officers said that they were here about raccoons. At the time I had 20 raccoons. I thought that they were bringing me more raccoons, when I found out that they were investigating me, I told them that I had all of the necessary paperwork that I needed. They asked for the permit, and I told them that they had not sent it to me yet, then I showed them the back of the property, the cages and animals, and they responded it was ok. They said they were going to check their records for my information, and realized that they had spelled my name wrong. They spelled it Slate I’m sleight, I explained if they looked they would see that that the paperwork was sent to them, and I had received paperwork from the State. I told them in the paperwork I received, I was sent a directory, and they stated that I must be ok because that directory only gets sent to licensed rehabilitators in case I need to network with them. I was also told police departments may get the directory as a list in case they need to refer to a wildlife rehabilitator, but it is not for the open public.
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