Ever Wonder Where Police Euthanize Animals?

In what was just a quick blotter entry, Tarrytown Police reported having to "destroy" a sick raccoon found on Green Street the morning of March 25. 

As this happens on occasion, I wondered where, and how, an animal gets put down.

Lt. William Herguth said police will sometimes have to capture an animal and take it up to an area around the Tarrytown Lakes that's secluded and typically used as a place to throw tree waste and leaves. Most importantly, a place that is “secure."

"If they have to do it they would do it in a secure area,” Herguth said. And by "it," they mean shooting it. 

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In 2011 Patch wrote about an incident in Mt. Pleasant when a cyclist on Old Sleepy Hollow Road was grazed by bullets from a police officer shooting at a raccoon.

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