Turtle No. 72, Where Are You?

According to The Washington Post (Slow and Steady Gets the Bust As Turtle's Trail Leads to Drugs, 8/1/2008) some Eastern box turtles in Rock Creek Park (spanning the D.C. and Maryland border) are fitted with tiny radio transmitters so their movements can be monitored by the National Park Service scientists. Said scientists sometimes rendezvous with their charges and apparently one such tête-à-tête took place in the middle of a tiny, well-cultivated marijuana plot deep in the woods of the Park. (Well, whatdoyawant? The turtle apparently went where the grass was - turtles have needs, too, you anti-turtle bigot!!!)
The end of the story is predictable: police stake-out, arrest and charges of possession with intent for the enterprising gardener.

Now, if only the combined police forces of D.C. and Maryland were equally swift catching murderers, rapists, thieves and drunk drivers…