Bird killer Thomas J. Cavanaugh, 20, who broke into the Popcorn Park Zoo in Lacey Township and killed eight of them on May 18, 2003, will be considered for parole from his five-year prison sentence in September.

Cavanaugh was one of three men involved in the burglary at the zoo on Lacey Road in Bamber Lake. Once inside they brutally beat three emus, two rheas and three ducks to death.

Their rampage also included stoning a goose to death at the county park at Wells Mills in Ocean Township, setting a golf cart on fire at Pinelands Paintball in Manchester, and smashing windows at St. Ann Seton Roman Catholic Church, also in Manchester.

Superior Court Judge Edward J. Turnbach initially gave Cavanaugh five years probation and ordered him to make $4,935 in restitution, but when he was caught using heroin while in a drug rehabilitation program, Turnbach sent him to prison on July 2, 2004 for violating his probation.

Cavanaugh got the sentence after pleading guilty to four counts of animal cruelty, two of criminal mischief, and one each of burglary and arson.

Turnbach gave him credit for 362 days he spent in jail on the charges against his prison term.

If the State Parole Board decides in September to release Cavanaugh from Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility at Annandale he will be free by April. If not his maximum release date is May 2, 2008.

Comments about Cavanaugh's release can be sent to the State Parole Board, CN 862, Trenton, N.J. 08625.

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