A wildlife lesson from the midnight shift... Lieutenant Matt Thornton’s passion for animals shined through even when he was working midnights. Whenever he’d come across an opossum that had been hit by a car, Lt. Thornton would always check the pouch for babies that could still be saved. As he shares with listeners, opossums are marsupials - meaning they carry their young in their pouches. This knowledge drove his commitment to giving even the smallest creatures a fighting chance, one midnight encounter at a time. Hear this story and more on the latest episode of 56: A Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Podcast. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.