A Pennsylvania man accused of trapping dozens of “New Yorkers’’ — a k a pigeons — at a Big Apple park to peddle them to hunters for shooting practice avoided becoming a jailbird last week.
Dwayne Daley, 67, had been charged with one count of overdriving, torturing and injuring animals — an offense punishable of up to a year in prison — when cops found more than two dozen pigeons in the back of his truck near Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan in April.
The Bushkill, Pa., resident ended up having the case against him dismissed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as part of a deal Friday.
Daley was required to avoid being re-arrested for six months after the April 30 incident, a time frame that was completed with his Friday court date.
The move left animal-rights activists fumin

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