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Amish men on horseback busted for shooting turtle

GLADWIN COUNTY, MI – Two Amish men recently confessed to shooting a snapping turtle in rural Gladwin County.

According to an official report by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, the incident occurred in mid-to-late June when Mark Papineau, a conservation officer in DNR District 5, investigated the report of a snapping turtle that appeared to have been killed by gunshot.

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