READ MORE:Feeding cats on public property lands Alabama 'cat ladies' in jail Defense attorneys Terry Luck and William Shashy took a two-pronged defense, arguing the criminal trespass charges were invalid because feeding stray cats isn't against the law in Wetumpka.Police Chief Greg Benton previously told the Montgomery Advertiser that the arrests were by the book and that the women had been warned “repeatedly” to stop feeding stray cats.Richie Beyer, chief operations officer for the county, testified that feeding the cats attracts more cats and other animals, including buzzards, that then damaged county and privately owned vehicles in the county-owned parking lot where the feeding and attempted trapping took place.Body camera footage of the incident shows three Wetumpka Police Department marked patrol vehicles responding to the call.When Luck asked who gave the order to the assistant chief, Crumpton said, "By second-hand knowledge, the mayor called the assistant chief" before the assistant chief called officers to arrest Roberts."