Full Name: Theresa Angel-Marie Fleming-Geiger
Alias: Theresa Fleming, Theresa Fleming-Geiger, Theresa Geiger, Theresa Evans
Address: 17348 10th Terrace, Live Oak, Florida 32060 Additional address: 923 Pineview Circle SW, Live Oak, Florida 32064
Race: White
Gender: Female
Birthdate: 02/21/1954
Arrest Age: 63
Arrest Date: 10/09/2017
Arresting Agency: Suwannee County Sheriff's Office
Charges
#1 FTA O/C POSS OF CAPTIVE
#2 WILDLIFE W/OUT PERMIT X3
What I could see of her LinkedIn profile, she says she is a wildlife rehabilitator so it may be that she was trying to save an animal that she didn't have a permit for.
FLORIDA -- Deputies in the Florida Keys made an unusual discovery during a traffic stop Sunday morning.
They found two endangered Key deer bound with twine in the back seat of the car and another deer in the trunk.
The deer were untied, evaluated and released into the wild to prevent further stress.
According to the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex, two ran directly into the woods. A buck is still in the area and being monitored.
The men in the car were arrested and taken to jail. They face multiple charges including felonies and misdemeanors for injuring an endangered species and animal cruelty.
For some reason, Fish & Game and wildlife divisions don't typically release the name of the people charged. If the media picks up the story, they're usually named because the reporters does a FOIA for the mugshot, but I skip a lot of stories involving wildlife crimes including poaching, etc. because the division does a press release but won't say the person or release their mugshot.
UPDATE 😟
We are sad to report that the injured buck was euthanized this morning.
Although he received daily veterinary care since the incident that included pain medication, fluids, and treatment for a broken rear ankle, he never recovered from the initial stress and "capture myopathy" of being taken by the two suspects arrested on Sunday.
As a result, he never regained the ability to stand up, and his organs were failing. In light of this, with veterinary guidance, we made the decision to end his suffering. The wildlife veterinarian that was assisting us euthanized him peacefully this morning.
His body is being preserved and handed over to the appropriate authorities as part of the ongoing criminal investigation. USFWS continues to coordinate with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) on this investigation.
FLORIDA -- As 11-year-old Walker Speir rode his bicycle June 8 along a path between Summerfield and Greenbrook, he wasn’t surprised to see the gopher tortoise that lived along the walkway, as he normally did.
What shocked him, however, was when he rode the same path just a few hours later and found the tortoise dead with its shell cracked. He and his brother, Owen, also saw a second tortoise farther down the path sitting in a pool of blood.
Walker texted his friend, 10-year-old Marina Redden: “Come look at the turtles.”
“It was terrible,” Marina Redden said when she visited the site.
Marina’s dad, Ray Redden, took the injury tortoise to the Bayshore Animal Hospital in Sarasota.
Marina was hoping their actions would save the tortoise.
“He was going ‘ahhh’ and gurgling,” Marina Redden said of the sounds the tortoise made during the trip.
Ultimately, the tortoise’s injuries proved too severe and he died, too.
Marina’s mom, Angela Redden, said someone purposely targeted the creatures, most likely slamming their shells with a hammer or flipping them upside down and repeatedly throwing them onto the concrete sidewalk.
Ray Redden said there was one circular splatter near the first dead turtle, with no marks indicating it had moved itself off the sidewalk.
The second turtle sat it in a pool of blood and there were two other similar marks — circular pools of blood — on the sidewalk. A vehicle would have created a different blood splatter pattern, Redden believes.
“There was no blood trail,” Ray Redden said.
“It’s disappointing,” Walker Speir said. “They looked so calm and nice, and they were beaten to death.”
Residents of the Lakewood Ranch community are outraged by the death of the tortoises, who lived along the pathway just west of Greenbrook Adventure Park and near Heron’s Nest Park.
Summerfield Glades resident Greg Fielder and his wife, Sandy, have seen the gopher tortoise along the path to Heron’s Nest park for at least five years. Sandy Fielder saw the dead turtle on her way to the dog park in Greenbrook’s Adventure Park and told her husband.
File photo of a juvenile gopher tortoise
“His shell was cracked right open and everything was coming out,” said Greg Fielder. “People walk there all morning. It really made me mad. It really broke my heart. I got a shovel and buried it out there in the woods.”
The Center for Biological Diversity announced Monday it is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission also has a $600 reward offered. Neighbors are contributing $1,600 to the $7,200 total reward.
The Arizona-based non-profit has an office in St. Petersburg and is dedicated to protecting endangered species.
File photo of adult gopher tortoise
"Taking just one tortoise can affect generations to come," said attorney Elise Bennett. "Gopher tortoises are defenseless. Other than their shells, that's all they have and to think that someone would do something so brutal and cruel."
Anyone with information should contact the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission at 888-404-FWCC (3922) or Tip@MyFWC.com.
VIDEO NEWS CLIP:
FLORIDA LAW
“A person may not intentionally kill or wound any fish or wildlife species designated by the commission as endangered, threatened, or of special concern.” Violation of this law is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years imprisonment, a $5,000 fine, or both.
REPORT IT
If you see someone wounding or killing an endangered species, report it to the FWC’s Wildlife Alert Reward Program: 888-404-FWCC (3922) or Tip@MyFWC.com.
Prosecutors say Thacker admitted in court documents to shooting eagle and then running over it repeatedly with an all-terrain vehicle because he was mad the bird was hunting in a pond on his property. Court documents say the incident happened March 13.
Thacker shot the bird with a Remington .22 caliber rifle. The rifle shot knocked the majestic bird out of the sky. But the adult male eagle, shot through the pelvis and the left wing, was still alive after hitting the ground.
“Though Thacker initially denied it when interviewed by investigators, a witness reported having seen Thacker [driving back and forth] over the live, injured eagle with his all-terrain vehicle,” the statement continued. “In Court records filed with [his] guilty plea, Thacker fully admitted to shooting the bird and running it over with the all-terrain vehicle.”
A necropsy found the eagle died from a blunt force trauma to its skull.
According to court documents, Thacker later told agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “that too much emphasis is placed on bald eagle protection because the birds are a menace and . . . that people with whom he associates feel the same way.”
Thacker pleaded guilty Tuesday in Norfolk federal court to violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. He faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine when he’s sentenced in October.
I guarantee you this POS will not spend one single night in a jail cell. They'll give him probation.
He must also hand over to the government the rifle and $960, or half the value of the ATV, according to a forfeiture order.
Thacker’s attorney did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking comment.
SOME FACEBOOK COMMENTS
Mc Vero Vargas Troncoso (Veronica Vargas Troncoso) - Wow it's just a freaking bird....
TJ Darby - Its our National Bird and a symbol of the United States
Al Est - "Just a freaking bird."
You're obviously not an American.
Venessa Yvette Lee Estevez - It is illegal to kill them.
Mc Vero Vargas Troncoso - And yeah I am American ...I'm Puertorican...so yeah I'm a citizen have a good day
Al Est - Mc Vero Vargas Troncoso and yet you think the bald eagle is "just a freaking bird." Go figure.
Josue Efrain Caraballo - A citizen but can't recognize the national symbol and that is protected by law. It's common knowledge. I'm Puerto Rican too and knew this. Stop embarrassing our community. Thanks.
HAWAII -- A man accused of killing federally protected Laysan albatross birds on Oahu has been sentenced.
On March 16, NYU college student Christian Gutierrez pleaded no contest to amended charges of third-degree theft, prohibited activities, prohibited activities in a natural area reserve, fourth-degree criminal property damage, and second-degree cruelty to animals.
Despite torturing and killing dozens of birds, Gutierrez and the other monsters were only charged with one count of 2nd-degree animal cruelty.
On Thursday, July 6, a judge sentenced the Punahou School graduate to 45 days in jail and a year of probation. He will also have to serve 200 hours of community service and pay restitution.
The vulnerable Kaena albatrosses apparently were easy targets for the killers, who allegedly bashed the birds with a baseball bat, slashed some their bodies and chopped off their wings and legs with a machete and shot others with a pellet gun.
“The nature and circumstances of the crimes that you pled to shock the conscience. The killing of these defenseless and protected birds was inexcusable,” said Circuit Court Judge Jeannette Castagnetti.
Gutierrez spoke before a packed courtroom, and apologized for his actions:
“I’ve been listening to what people have been saying about this case, and about my character, and about what’s happened since the beginning, and also here today in this courtroom. The people have every right to be angry and disgusted with my behavior, as I am disgusted with my own behavior. I wish I had the courage not to go along, but I did and I will forever have that memory.
“Ms. Young, Ms. Case, Ms. Zoll, and Mr. Aila, I am sorry for the impact that my actions have caused you and the community. Ms. (Lindsay Young, executive director, Pacific Rim Conservation Group), seven months ago in the hallway of this courtroom, you said to me you should be ashamed of yourself, and you’re right. I am ashamed of myself.”
If he were really remorseful he wouldn't have dragged this out for more than a year "fighting to get a deferred sentence" which would have wiped his record clean after the probation and blocked the police reports as if he had never tortured these poor animals to death. He's not sorry. If he were, he would have manned up, plead guilty at the onset and issued his apology then.
Gutierrez was taken into custody immediately following his sentencing. While being handcuffed, he uttered yet another apology: “I love you, Mom. I love you, Dad. I’m sorry.”
His attorney, Myles Breiner, says he’s disappointed with the outcome.
He had been fighting to get the charges deferred, meaning if Gutierrez stayed out of trouble, the charges would eventually be wiped from his record. But the judge denied that request.
“We thought that he deserved a deferral,” Breiner said. “We’re disappointed that the court gave him any jail at all. Hopefully when he gets out, he’ll be able to resume his studies in New York.”
His parents clearly have a lot of money. They live in Hawaii and yet they're able to send their kid all the way to NYC to go to school at NYU and have him fly home for breaks? None of that is affordable to 75% of Americans. New York University Undergraduate Student Cost Per Year Data shown for 2014-2015 school year. Tuition & Fees Out-of-State: $46,170 Room and Board: $16,782 Books & Supplies: $1,070 Other Expenses: $2,000 Total In-State: $66,022 Headline should be "Spoiled rich kid tortures and kills animals for his amusement knowing Mommy and Daddy will bail him out"
Gutierrez will have to report to a probation officer once he’s released from jail.
In December 2015, officials found at least 15 nests in Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve were destroyed with either smashed, dead, or missing eggs. At least 32 adults and eggs were killed, officials said, and there was evidence that several birds had their feet cut off.
Seabird monitoring cameras and sound equipment were also missing with a replacement value of $3,100, officials said.
KILLERS BRAGGED ABOUT THEIR CRIMES
According to civilbeat.org, all the details I have about the alleged albatross killers came indirectly from the suspects themselves who, at a party shortly after the Kaena incident, bragged to their peers about what they had done to the birds. Their boasting included showing the metal identification tags obtained by cutting off the albatrosses’ feet.
Some of their peers were stunned and told their parents. The word got out to Punahou School and others.
Oblivious to the reaction of their classmates, the suspects continued to show off the metal tags and even post pictures of the dead birds on their social media sites until eventually taking down the incriminating information.
What makes the alleged crime particularly horrific is nesting albatrosses are harmless, trusting creatures that are unafraid of human beings. By their nature, the birds stay close to their eggs and chicks no matter what’s happening around their nests.
A year later, Gutierrez turned himself in after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
“If you approach an animal that is not going to try to escape because it is guarding its eggs, and you not only smash its egg, but rip it apart while alive and then save an ID band as a souvenir, one you had to get by dismembering a limb, for entertainment, and you do it more than a dozen times, you have no conscience,” Executive Director of Pacific Rim Conservation Lindsay Young said.
He initially pleaded not guilty to multiple counts, including theft, entering a prohibited area, prohibited activities in a nature reserve, fourth-degree criminal property damage, and 14 counts of animal cruelty, before reaching a deal with prosecutors.
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources says the sentencing sends a strong message that crimes like this aren’t taken lightly.
“Everyone wants to be clear that we cannot tolerate this type of behavior. It’s brutal. It’s heinous, and we need to protect our wildlife,” said DLNR chair Suzanne Case. “It’s hard to put a dollar figure on that. We obviously spent hundreds of thousands of dollars creating this protected area and protected from invasive predators, and unfortunately, not protected from man.”
DLNR estimates the long-term effects of the killings resulted in about 320 albatross lost.
Breiner previously told us Gutierrez was not the ring leader, and other individuals — who were juveniles — were involved.
We asked Breiner what’s next for the other boys involved in the case, but he says he can’t comment because those cases are in juvenile court.
THE ALBATROSS IN FOLKLORE
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" tells us that the albatross is a powerful symbol of good luck — and that it can bring terrible misfortune or “bachi” to kill one.
In the poem, a sailor brings to an abrupt end the good sailing conditions his ship has been experiencing when for no reason he fires an arrow from his crossbow to kill a friendly albatross that had taken to following behind the ship.
After the bird’s death, the ship is cursed with life-threatening storms. The furious crew members punish the albatross killer by tying the dead albatross on a rope dangling from his neck.
In the poem, the sailor says: “Ah! well a-day that evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.” -- Civilbeat.org
NEW YORK -- The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation has leveled charges against the teen who is accused of beating a snapping turtle to death in Elma.
The teen, who is 16 and from Elma, is charged with two violations of state’s Environmental Conservation Law.
The disturbing video shows at least two teens poking a snapping turtle with a stick, and then using a large tree branch to beat it. After beating and poking the poor turtle, they finally hit it so hard that its entire shell, cracks open.
The news story doesn't say what happened then, but the injury would be fatal. Did they continue torturing it until it finally died or did they tire of it and simply walk off, leaving it to suffer and slowly die? The teens were so proud of their torture porn that they uploaded it to Facebook to brag to everyone about what clever animal abusers they are.
Really, they're not clever animal abusers. What they are are serial killers in the making. Several serial killers have been documented saying they tortured and killed animals when they were children and adolescents (teens) and gradually got bored with torturing and killing animals and moved up to human beings.
This video spread quickly on social media — with many people saying the teens were from Iroquois High School.
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR CHILDREN
AND TEENS WHO ENJOY TORTURING
AND KILLING ANIMALS?
The district’s superintendent said the incident didn’t happen during school hours or on school property — but the district is conducting its own investigation.
Snapping turtles are protected and regulated under the state’s environmental conservation law.
Gina Browning, of the Erie County SPCA, talked to News 4 recently about the state’s push to increase penalties for certain kinds of animal abuse. She also discussed the role social media plays in these types of investigations.
“Because of social media, people are more aware that animal cruelty may be happening,” Browning said. “People are starting to look for. People are starting to question things. There is more of a capacity to report animal cruelty anonymously than there ever was before."
The teen is charged with illegally pursuing wildlife and attempting to take wildlife during a closed season. Both violations carrying a potential fine of up to $250 or up to 15 days in jail.
Why isn't he being charged with animal cruelty/torture?? So it's OK to torture a wild animal to death as long as it's "open season"??? And don't kid yourself. This Jeffrey Dahmer Junior will never spend one single night in juvenile detention. What he'll take away from this is that he can torture and kill animals and there is really no punishment for it.
