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00:07 out on future videos. An officer with

00:09 the Maryland Natural Resources

00:11 Department was patrolling Green Well

00:13 State Park when he observed a woman

00:14 carrying two buckets on the bank of the

00:16 Puxent River. In the state of Maryland,

00:18 croers have a minimum size limit of 9

00:21 in. And at that time of the year, male

00:23 hard crabs have a minimum size limit of

00:25 5 and 1/4 in. As she approached her

00:28 vehicle, the officer made contact.

00:31 >> Hello.

00:32 >> Hello. How are you?

00:32 >> I'm good.

00:33 >> Good. Good.

00:35 >> Did you have any luck?

00:36 >> Yeah.

00:37 >> Did you have any luck?

00:38 >> No.

00:40 >> Okay.

00:41 >> Nice. I'm officer show with the Maryland

00:43 Natural Resources.

00:44 >> No. No. M.

00:45 >> I'm sorry.

00:46 >> I got

00:47 >> Yeah.

00:48 >> I'm I just got to measure them, that's

00:49 all.

00:50 >> I Hold on one second. So, I got a camera

00:52 on so everything's audio and video

00:53 recorded. Okay. I'm just I'm just

00:55 checking the crabs. Going to going to

00:57 look and measure them.

00:58 >> Okay.

00:58 >> Is there anything in that bucket right

01:00 there?

01:00 >> Fish.

01:01 >> Okay. Fish in there.

01:05 >> Oh, berries. Okay.

01:10 >> Okay. Good deal. Is there anything in

01:11 this right here?

01:12 >> Oh, no more.

01:13 >> Nothing in there.

01:14 >> Yeah.

01:15 >> Yeah.

01:16 >> All right.

01:17 >> Oh, only fish the same. Same thing.

01:20 Yeah.

01:20 >> Okay. More fish.

01:21 >> Yeah. Uh-huh.

01:22 >> Okay. Got to see this. Uh, you can you

01:24 just pull the cooler out cuz I don't

01:26 want to get water all over your car.

01:27 >> Yeah.

01:28 >> Okay. Okay. Thank you.

01:31 >> All right. I got to measure these and

01:32 the crabs. Okay. Uh, do you have a

01:34 driver's license and a fishing license?

01:36 >> Yeah, I'm

01:37 >> Okay.

01:39 >> Okay. Hang on. Hang on one second. Just

01:41 stay right here.

01:43 >> Okay.

01:52 Is this is this car yours or is it

01:55 registered to you?

01:57 >> Is the car registered in your name?

01:59 Okay, I'm okay.

02:07 >> Just just stay there for a second. Okay.

02:39 Actually

02:50 good.

02:57 Oh shoot.

03:09 Goodness gracious.

03:32 They're great to be in individual beds.

04:21 Hello.

04:21 >> Hello.

04:22 >> How are you guys?

04:23 >> How are you?

04:24 >> Good. Good. I'm officer show with the

04:25 natural resource police. My 1754 just

04:28 let you know I got a camera on so

04:29 everything's audio and video recorded.

04:30 Okay. Okay.

04:31 >> Did you guys do any good?

04:32 >> No.

04:32 >> They're small ones. We we let them go.

04:34 >> Okay. Good deal. Nothing in the truck or

04:36 anything like that?

04:37 >> No. Go ahead and start if you if you

04:40 want I don't want to go touching my

04:42 truck. I got fish all over my hands.

04:44 >> All right, good deal. Thank you guys.

04:46 >> Appreciate it.

04:47 >> Anybody else catch anything down there?

04:48 >> We did, but they were just small. We

04:50 measured them, but there was like three

04:51 >> four three and a half in

04:54 like a lot of females though.

04:56 >> A lot of females.

04:57 >> All right.

04:58 >> All right. Take care, guys.

04:59 >> All right. Take care. Bye.

05:00 >> See you.

05:08 >> Big old fathead croer, dude.

05:13 9 and a half incher

05:16 yellow building on that thing.

05:22 Yeah, we're going to have a problem

05:23 here.

05:27 Okay. 7 and 12. Little over seven and a

05:31 half.

05:41 Little eight

05:43 less than 8 and 1/2.

05:45 That one's little over 8 and 1/2.

05:51 That one's a little over 8 and 1/2.

05:54 Little over 8 and 1/2.

06:05 >> Seven and a half.

06:07 A uh

06:09 >> about 8 and 1/2. Uh less than 8 and 1/2.

06:13 Less than eight.

06:15 Little over 7 and 1/2. A little less 8

06:18 and 1/2. Eight. 8 and 1/2. Eight. 7 and

06:23 1/2. Almost. Little less than eight. Oh

06:27 man. Less than 8 and 1/2. Touch over

06:30 eight.

06:31 Little less than 8 and 1/2. A little

06:34 over 7 and 1/2.

06:36 Goodness.

06:39 Eight. A little over eight.

06:42 Crazy man.

06:46 A little over eight. 25 smaller. Jeez.

06:54 That sucks.

07:08 Do you have your ID? Okay.

07:11 Were you the only one fishing or

07:14 >> I caught one today?

07:17 >> Okay.

07:17 >> Yeah.

07:17 >> Do you have a driver's license?

07:19 >> Okay. Okay.

07:21 >> Okay.

07:21 >> Yes.

07:22 >> Are you the only one that was fishing?

07:23 Are you the only one catching those

07:24 fish?

07:26 >> No more. Go home. I'm done.

07:28 >> Okay.

07:28 >> Yeah. Mhm.

07:29 >> All right. Do you know this guy right

07:30 here?

07:31 >> Oh, no. Okay. Yeah.

07:33 >> All right. Okay. Just

07:36 >> Yeah. Everything's fine.

07:37 >> Okay.

07:37 >> I just didn't know if you knew each

07:39 other cuz it I there's a little language

07:41 barrier. I saw you guys talking. I

07:42 didn't know if you could help me.

07:43 >> Have you been okay, sir?

07:45 >> Yeah. Well, I got to I got to do some

07:46 things real quick cuz you had a bunch of

07:48 small fish that were way too small.

07:50 Okay. So, I'm going to I'm going to pull

07:53 up over there.

07:54 >> Yeah.

07:54 >> And you if you want to sit in your car,

07:56 do whatever you got to do. Turn the AC

07:57 on. I know it's hot. So, I'm going to

07:59 get in my truck and I'll be right back

08:01 with you. Okay. All right. Thank you.

08:06 All the All these in this bucket, this

08:08 is all good. You can you can keep this

08:10 stuff.

08:10 >> Okay.

08:11 >> So, the fish there's fish in there. And

08:13 >> yeah,

08:13 >> there's a lot more fish that are back

08:15 there. They're just too small. Okay.

08:17 >> And then there was only there was two

08:18 small crabs, but then the rest of those

08:20 crabs are good. Okay.

08:21 >> Oh,

08:22 >> I'll show you all the all the small

08:23 ones. Okay.

08:24 >> I'm going to pull my truck up, though.

08:28 Are there any more fish here or did you

08:30 you had all of them? Okay.

08:32 >> Okay.

08:35 >> Okay. So,

08:38 all these croer there's there's 25 of

08:40 them in there. They're all less than 9

08:42 in. Okay. So, they're too small. And

08:44 these crabs, they got to be 5 and a/4 in

08:46 this time of year. So, they're too small

08:48 as well.

08:50 >> Yeah. Here's your

08:50 >> Did the sizes just change on the crabs?

08:52 >> Uh, yeah. After July 14th.

08:54 >> Gotcha. Gotcha. cuz I was down here.

08:57 >> I didn't give her any tickets or

08:58 anything for that. So,

09:02 >> cuz I was down here a couple days ago

09:04 and he was like, "Yeah, they got to be 5

09:05 in." Yes.

09:06 >> Like, I got you.

09:07 >> Every year is the same. So, up until

09:09 July 14th, it's it's four or it's five.

09:12 Sorry. And then after

09:13 >> the 14th.

09:14 >> Yep. It's five and a quarter inches.

09:16 >> So,

09:17 >> yeah.

09:19 >> Hey, Grandma.

09:21 >> Thank you.

09:21 >> Okay. So, uh, this this paper right

09:24 here, this side's a warning. Okay. So,

09:28 there's a there's a charge. It's you got

09:31 to be g in compliance with all fishing

09:33 laws in the state park. I just gave you

09:34 a a warning on that. So, no fines or

09:36 court with this, but this one right

09:38 here, uh, it's a must appear. So, you

09:41 have to go to court. Okay. So, the court

09:43 is going to send a a court date in the

09:46 mail to Is that where you currently

09:49 live?

09:50 >> Yeah.

09:50 >> Right here.

09:50 >> Mhm. So, uh, this is the court address.

09:53 So, when they send that date in the

09:54 mail, make sure you're in court on that

09:56 day. Okay.

09:57 >> Okay.

09:57 >> Or else you'll have a bench warrant put

09:58 out for your arrest and $100 tacked on

10:00 to the fine. Okay.

10:02 >> Okay. Any questions or

10:04 >> No, I don't get anything.

10:05 >> Okay. Yep. Yep. And uh all the all the

10:08 sizes and season on your fishing

10:11 license, there's like a little QR code

10:13 you if you scan that, it tells you it

10:16 brings you like a PDF and it shows you

10:17 all the sizes, seasons, all that stuff.

10:20 Also, there's books. So, just check

10:22 those.

10:22 >> No more fishing.

10:24 >> Oh, no. You can you can fish. Just make

10:25 sure you know. Just make sure you know.

10:28 >> So,

10:28 >> I'm sorry, sir. Thank you.

10:30 >> It's all right. Just say travels. Take

10:32 care.

10:32 >> Thank you.

10:33 >> Yep.

10:35 >> In the end, the angller was charged with

10:36 being in possession of 11 or more

10:38 undersized croker. After failing to

10:40 appear to her pre-trial hearing, she

10:42 plead guilty to the charge.

10:43 Unfortunately, the court records do not

10:45 make sentencing details publicly

10:47 available. We called the courthouse for

10:49 additional information, but they refused

10:51 to provide any as we were not directly

10:53 involved in the case. She likely

10:54 received a monetary fine as a result of

10:56 this case. Using the available

10:58 information made public from the courts,

11:00 we can confirm that she was not

11:02 sentenced to life in prison and she did

11:04 not receive the death penalty. If you

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