Puerto Vallarta’s rare Vallarta mud turtle just caught a break. Federal inspectors and Navy personnel swept four nesting areas on October 22, disabling a dozen illegal traps and freeing two animals that had been captured. One device held a different native mud turtle; another snared a baby crocodile by the mouth. Both were released. The operation comes as poachers chase a lucrative black market for one of Mexico’s smallest and most endangered tur…