Maine police officers get jail time for beating porcupines to death while on-duty

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Maine police officers get jail time for beating porcupines to death while on-duty
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Two former Maine police officers were sentenced to prison for beating porcupines to death while on duty.
The shocking behaviour was reported to Rockland police bosses in August by another officer and both were fired from their jobs in September.
Addison Cox, 28, and Michael Rolerson, 31, pleaded guilty in Knox Superior Court to misdemeanor charges of cruelty to animals and night hunting, according to court documents.
Rolerson told investigators from the Maine Warden Service that he had killed eight of the spiky rodents, which he believed were a nuisance that caused damage, according to

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