DEC Retrieves Raccoons From Norwich Resident's Home
Published: February 4th, 2019
By: Zachary Meseck

DEC retrieves raccoons from Norwich resident's home

NORWICH – The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) discovered a Norwich home had harbored raccoons and sold them to another home, where the new raccoon owner had been bitten, before executing a plan to retrieve the raccoons and test them for rabies.

According to DEC Press Office Representative Benning DeLaMater, on January 23 Environmental Conservation Officers (ECO) Brett Armstrong, Mary Grose, Matt Burdick, Andy Kostuk, and Lt. Will Burnell executed a search warrant in Norwich.

DeLaMater said Armstrong was investigating reports of individuals harboring raccoons as pets when he received information that raccoons were being held inside a Norwich home.

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"The possession of live, wild raccoons is both a violation of state law and a health hazard, as raccoons are a rabies vector species," said DeLaMater. "Upon execution of the warrant, the ECOs found 13 people, including children, living in the house."

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