Felony charges for man who caught kittens on sticky traps

Five kittens were rescued and a man was charged with five felonies after a neighbor discovered the man had caught kittens on sticky rodent traps and thrown two of them into the garbage.

Police responded to a call about the incident at the home of 63 year old Murray, Utah resident Stephen Patrick Lacy on August 23 after the neighbor heard meows and discovered the two kittens in Lacy’s garbage can, stuck to traps and buried under leaves.

“Lacy said there were three more kittens in his carport that were also stuck to the traps,” a detective wrote in the probable cause statement. “[The responding] officer could hear the kittens meowing loudly and observed three kittens stuck to one trap,” the probable cause report for the charges states. “One kitten appeared to have a broken leg and another appeared to have its mouth stuck closed.”

Lacy reportedly told police he’d set the traps to catch wild or feral cats, saying he was trying to take care of a feral cat problem in the area, but later denied that and said he was addressing a rodent problem.

He told police he’d thought the two kittens he admitted to throwing into the garbage can were dead, saying they were not moving at all.

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