March 5, 2015
From WTVR.com
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — A criminal investigation was launched recently, after large animal traps were found scattered throughout a Chesterfield neighborhood. One contraption in the Colony Point neighborhood was well-camouflaged. It caused Stephen Baker to do a face plant in the woods behind his house.
“I was walking along the creek with my kids and stepped into a snare trap and ended up on my face,” Baker said.
Conservation police said the man who put a number of traps in the woods didn’t have permission or the proper placement tags. “We had some illegal activity with a guy putting traps in a place where they shouldn’t have been, and the department issued citations for that activity,” Lee Walker, with Game and Inland Fisheries said.
“Walk down a bit further and there was a leg-hold clamp,” Baker said. “For an adult to get caught in one, is not a big deal, but a young child could suffer some serious damage.”