(MI) Bay City Times – A wildlife poacher from Saginaw was nabbed and ticketed after a two-month investigation by officials from the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge and Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Painted turtles, snapping turtles, largemouth bass and channel catfish were removed from the vicinity of the refuge’s Green Point Environmental Learning Center, refuge officials said. The turtles were kept in swimming pools in the basement of the poacher, identified as a man from Saginaw. More