Horseshoe crabbers busted
in Jamaica
Bay
Two Brooklyn men — Robert Wolter, 28 and Joseph
Knauer, 33 — have been charged with fishing for the protected bottom-dwelling
arthropod.
BY THOMAS TRACY /
NEW YORK
Marine
Biologist Dr. George Frame holds a horseshoe crab, which is considered an
endangered species, by Jamaica Bay Queens .
These
guys are criminals with a tough shell.
Cops cuffed two men they say were
stealing 200 horseshoe crabs from a Jamaica Bay
An NYPD
helicopter crew conducting night-vision exercises spotted four men taking the
sword-tailed creatures from the shoreline of a small island known as the Ruffle
Bar and throwing them into two 35-foot motor boats anchored nearby about 10
p.m.
For the next 40 minutes, cops trailed
one of the Carolina Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn .
They caught
suspects Robert Wolter, 28, and Joseph Knauer, 33, both of Brooklyn , loading the crabs into
a large plastic tub on Emmons Ave.
Cops handed Wolter and Knauer over to
the U.S. Parks Police, who charged them with taking wildlife without a permit
and disturbing wildlife breeding practices
The two men
in the second boat were still at large Tuesday.
It was unclear why Wolter and Knauer
were collecting the creatures, which can reach 2 feet in length and weigh up to
10 pounds.
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