Earl and Lee were caught attempting to break into the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
on Tuesday, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office described “two furry, pint-sized burglary suspects” attempting to break into the back employee entrance of the sheriff’s office in Douglasville, located 22 miles west of downtown Atlanta.
The raccoons, dubbed Earl and Lee by deputies, were quickly apprehended and detained before they entered the building, the sheriff’s office said. The two rowdy raccoons will be sentenced to a few weeks of “rest and rehab” at a “much more raccoon-friendly environment,” where they will be supervised by veteran animal rehabilitators, the sheriff’s office“We fully expect them to ‘bail out’ of the rehab location before the end of the summer,” deputiesDeputies believe there are two other possible suspects in this Georgia break-in, named Rocket and Ma, who is allegedly the gang’s ringleader.
The two captured raccoons were offered peanuts in exchange for information about the other members, but these two animals were tough nuts to crack.Fortunately, no staff members at the sheriff’s office were injured.
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