I went to my car and picked up the copy of the paperwork I had sent them, and handed it to Lisa.  She said,” well, it’s too late.”  It was obvious they used this paperwork as an excuse to come to my house.  She then got on the radio and said that the area was secure.  Then, two trucks pulled up and parked at both ends of the road and all of the men come piling out of the truck from F&G, they went in the house and started netting the animals.  The baby raccoons they grabbed with snare poles.  They were just little babies; they did not have to do that.  Then they went out in the back.  They had the Long Branch Animal Control with them, the Long Branch Police, and the health department. They went into the huge walk in cages I have for the raccoons, and started snare poling the animals around the neck.  I yelled at them not to do that, their necks are too sensitive for that, you must do it around the waist.  The Long Branch Animal Control told conservation officers not to snare them around the neck, it was incorrect. NJ F&G barked back that they were the experts and continued poling them around the neck.  The animals were screaming, and the raccoons were reaching their arms out of the cages toward me to help them. (Raccoons are trusting of their caretakers).I moved towards one of the conservation officers on the scene (it was Larry Herrighty’s brother). I wanted them to stop hurting the raccoons.  Larry Herrighty’s brother told the other conservation officers to restrain me.  The conservation officers jumped me and held guns pointed at my head, then turned to the police officers and barked a command to cuff me.  The officers refused to cuff me and requested that the conservation officers remove the guns pointed at my head.  The F&G officers relayed to the police that I was a threat.  The police officers told the F&G that I was not a threat.  They said,” The man has no shirt on or shoes”.  I was held under guard for 2 hours in the back of the property.  I couldn’t do a thing.  When they finally gathered up all of the animals they asked where they all came from.  I had named my animals by code to identify the towns where each animal came from, so when released they would go back to the area they came from.

To be continued

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