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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Woman hears baby cub bear crying in trap, gets jail time sentence

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Catherine McCartney and Mark Nagelhout freed a bear cub from a trap in a New Jersey town, but what they believed was a good deed landed the animal rights activists in court. A judge ordered McCartney to serve 15 days in jail because of her record of freeing animals from traps set by government agents trying to protect communities from bears. Nancy Grace looks at the controversy with McCartney, Nagelhout, and their lawyer Doris Lin, director of legal affairs at Animal Protection League of New Jersey. Grace's expert panels also includes Zoo Logic podcast host Dr. Grey Stafford -- who is an animal trainer and zoologist, Atlanta lawyer and animal rights activist Penny Douglas-Furr, and Crime Stories reporter Robyn Walensky.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:21.3

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0:29.5

Thank you, azurestandard, for being our partner.

0:38.8

Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:44.3

An animal rights activist who helped to free a bear from a trap will spend a couple of weeks

0:49.5

in jail. Catherine McCartney, who's from Vernon, is appealing the sentence, however, she and

0:54.0

another man helped the young bear escape back in October. Those traps were put in place after

0:58.4

some nearby residents say bears charged at them on two separate occasions.

1:02.0

You are hearing from our friends at News 12, New Jersey. I'm all about everybody.

1:07.7

Do it a little bit of probation. I don't think it hurts anybody. And maybe a little gel time,

1:12.0

once in a while, but wait a minute. This lady frees a crying bear cub from a trap and she gets

1:21.9

gel time sentence. What? Wait, hold on, Jackie, you're here with me, Jackie Howard. Aren't there

1:29.6

murderers and rapists and drug dealers and child molesters walking around free right now?

1:35.1

Okay, and she gets gel time. I'm Nancy Grace. This describes stories. Thank you for being with us

1:41.5

and joining you right now on All Star panel, starting with the New Jersey woman who gets

1:47.8

gel sentence for freeing a crying baby bear cub. Catherine McCartney, also with me,

1:56.1

Mark Niggle helped the man who helped her free the bear cub. Doris Lynn, Director of Legal Affairs,

2:01.8

Animal Protection, Legal Legal Jersey, Dr. Grace Stafford, our friend, animal trainer,

2:06.2

zoologist, host of Zood Logic, podcast, Pinae Douglas Furr, longtime attorney,

2:13.3

and animal activists and joining me right now, crime online.com, investigate a reporter, author,

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