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Introducing: Operation Night Cat

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Introducing a special three-part series from NHPR’s Document team and Outside/In: Operation Night Cat.  A New Hampshire Fish and Game warden follows a tip to a man’s backyard. He finds a twisted game of one-upmanship, digital trophy rooms, and one of the biggest poaching cases in recent state history. Then, the hunting investigation takes a surprising turn when it reveals another set of potential crimes – this time, behind the brick walls of New Hampshire’s State Prison for Men.  Host Nate Hegyi has spent the past year digging into what happened next. Catch the first episode right here, on November 5th.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Nate here, here to give you a heads up about something that we've been working on

0:04.3

for a very long time. Starting next week, our next three episodes will be part of a special

0:10.2

miniseries called Operation Nightcat. I know, right? Great name. We've been partnering with

0:15.7

our colleagues on the award-winning investigative team document here at NHPR to help us put this

0:20.6

together, and I

0:21.7

cannot wait for you to hear it. We whipped up a little trailer so you can get a taste of what you're

0:26.8

in for, so check it out. Tell your friends, and we'll see you next week. Ron Arsenalt was a

0:35.4

small town cop with New Hampshire's Fish and Game Department.

0:38.8

Someone who spent his days nabbing people for hunting out of season or fishing with illegal minnow traps.

0:44.7

These are always fun.

0:46.1

Never know what you're going to get.

0:47.5

What's he got in there? A cookie?

0:49.2

That looks like a cookie, huh?

0:50.3

Or no, it's a sausage patty.

0:51.5

Yeah, sausage patty.

0:53.4

Huh.

0:54.5

Until one day, when he landed the bust of a lifetime.

0:59.4

Operation Nightcat.

1:01.3

It all started with four or five deer walking across the road.

1:04.4

Because if you look at it all the way of the beginning, it was like, why the deer across the road to kill a bobcat?

1:10.7

It's like, it's crazy.

1:15.8

I'm Nate Hedgy, and for the past year, I have been following this case,

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